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Harry Bosch's System - can you identify?

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Posted on March 5, 2015 at 12:44:44
beautox
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I was watching the last episode of Bosch, Amazon's TV series about Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch, LAPD detective. Harry is a big jazz fan, not an audiophile. But he has a good record collection and is shown with a system that uses octal tubes in the amp, a Marantz record deck. I can't identify the exact components - but I'm sure some here can.

I thought this system was realistic; had the feeling of a system somebody bought a long time ago and kept. Nice to see effort being put into this.



 

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RE: Harry Bosch's System - can you identify?, posted on March 5, 2015 at 12:58:07
Jack G
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 That's a Mac MC275 and Ohm speakers (not current model), possibly 4s or 5s.
Jack

 

RE: Harry Bosch's System - can you identify?, posted on March 5, 2015 at 13:05:21
bgunn
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 Yep, likely Ohm 4.

 

RE: Harry Bosch's System - can you identify?, posted on March 5, 2015 at 14:19:07
HotStamper
 Looks like the McIntosh MX110 preamp-tuner, MC240 amp and whatever Ohms.
Also looks like it was shot at the Stahl house.

 

RE: Harry Bosch's System - realistic?, posted on March 5, 2015 at 14:30:06
cdb
 Maybe with some speaker cables; even zip cord.
And a little less toe-in on the Ohms.

As-is, it says Prop Dept. to me.

 

RE: Harry Bosch's System - realistic?, posted on March 5, 2015 at 14:35:43
beautox
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 Well there were scenes where the amp was on with tubes glowing and records were spun and played. But yes, likely was the work of a props dept. But at least there was a little thought put into it.

 

RE: Harry Bosch's System - realistic?, posted on March 5, 2015 at 14:39:07
Rob Doorack
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 >>a little less toe-in on the Ohms<<

I thought the Walsh driver in Ohm speakers was omnidirectional; wouldn't that make toe - in irrelevant?

 

He listened to cds in the Books, on a system he turned on w/remote., posted on March 5, 2015 at 15:04:31
oldmkvi
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 One particular Alto Player who's name escapes me.
AHA! Frank Morgan.
Harry even took some Sax lessons one one of the Books.
He had a deck outside, not sure about those windows...
Looks too fancy.
I have a feeling the Series is "Based" on the Character, not the books.

 

RE: Harry Bosch's System - can you identify?, posted on March 5, 2015 at 15:05:08
mkuller
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 ...love the books - started the latest one last night - Burning Room.

Haven't seen the TV show.

Nice retro system which fits right in.

 

All Show, No Go..., posted on March 5, 2015 at 15:15:06
Doug Schroeder
 It's about what would be expected of TV. The signal appears to be magically pushed to the Ohm speakers without a conduit. If the system was as is, then perhaps the amp and turntable were operational, but not making music? I suspect the music would be dubbed in. That might be necessary if there was conversation in the scene.

Of the system in situ, I think it would sound horrific due to the hard flooring and placed right next to the windows. I own omni speakers, and it would be a mess to blast the Ohms off the glass wall.

But in terms of the purpose, to give the illusion of a system of the era, it's a good effort. As one who has been on commercials and has seen what's on the other side of the camera on a set, TV itself is an illusion.

 

Elementary, Castle, The Mentalist, and either a Honda or Geico ad, posted on March 5, 2015 at 15:28:10
oldmkvi
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 have Mcintosh, and Kef LS50's are also in Elementary.
I've seen McIntosh in several movies.
You never see any Cables in HiFi ads, loads of stuff in racks, no wires.

 

RE: Harry Bosch's System - can you identify?, posted on March 5, 2015 at 15:32:23
6bq5
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 Funny bit about the system - is the Ohms (I think 4s) need 150-200 watts before they can open up-but they also have a bit of a hard ceiling- can't take too much power...
I had a pair of 4 for a bit - 100 watts of tube power and I always felt like they needed more...

Happy Listening

 

RE: Harry Bosch's System - can you identify?, posted on March 5, 2015 at 15:33:23
fantja
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 What a View!

 

RE: Harry Bosch's System - can you identify?, posted on March 5, 2015 at 15:34:24
fantja
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 where are the speaker cables?

 

The table is a Marantz 6300 ..., posted on March 5, 2015 at 16:38:59
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Dean.




reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.


 

RE: All Show, No Go..., posted on March 5, 2015 at 16:49:17
maplegrovemusic
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 Same scenario with the New CBS redo of "The Odd Couple" sitcom that just began recently . Has some martin logan speakers pressed up tight to the walls with no visible wires .
maplegrovemusic

 

RE: Harry Bosch's System - can you identify?, posted on March 5, 2015 at 16:52:08
russ69
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 IIRC the speakers are from the early seventies, The console is definitely 60s as are the Mac amps. Overall impression is a 60s rig. The girls clothing is not from the 60/70s. The lamp looks older than that. Totally a mixed metaphor. Young people wouldn't know, it all just looks old, like your uncle would have....if you were 40 years old!

 

RE: He listened to cds in the Books, on a system he turned on w/remote., posted on March 5, 2015 at 17:57:17
mes
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 Connelly even put out a jazz cd compilation w one of the books years ago. Playing jazz and going out on the deck w a beer and ruminating is a recurring motif in the books. No deck seems kinda lame and I agree that looks too fancy for Bosch. I mean not as bad as choosing someone completely incongruous to play a character with specific physical attributes. Oh, say, like 6'5" 250 lb Jack Reacher. No one would ever have that character played by someone like, oh lemme think, Tom Cruise?

 

RE: He listened to cds in the Books, on a system he turned on w/remote., posted on March 5, 2015 at 21:19:31
beautox
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 It does have a deck on the TV series. I've read all the books and I liked the TV series. It was based on 3 books but differed in several ways, like it was designed to appeal to the readers of Bosch. Connelly was in charge of this; he bought back the rights to his books that he sold 15 years ago, so now he hopes he gets to make more series after this. Also done with Eric Overmeyer who was on The Wire, etc.

I like the fact that Connelly doesn't particularly like jazz - the Bosch/Jazz storyline in invented not autobiographical.

 

I think you nailed it. nT, posted on March 6, 2015 at 02:08:27
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I'll give it a go..., posted on March 6, 2015 at 05:04:25
rlw
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 Looks like a Mac 2300 amp, Marantz 6300 'table, and some unidentified receiver or tuner/preamp driving what appear to be Ohm Walsh 4 speakers. They *might* be Walsh 2s but appear just a wee bit too large for them.

Additionally, for proper imaging, the Ohms were supposed to be setup with the left speaker displaying the "Ohm" tag and the right speaker displaying the "Walsh n" tag as you view them from your seated position. It *is* possible to set them up flat against that glass wall, but hardly desirable. And I can discern no seating position that would be served by the speakers' current toe-in.

And, of course, the lack of speaker wires indicates that the woman in the picture probably did the set design...[g]
-RW-

 

RE: He listened to cds in the Books, on a system he turned on w/remote., posted on March 6, 2015 at 09:23:17
mes
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 Well you've piqued my interest in the series. I'll have to check it out. Tx for the info.

 

How Good Could It Sound With All That Glass!, posted on March 9, 2015 at 11:57:34
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 nt.

 

RE: Ohm speakers, posted on March 9, 2015 at 17:47:19
Rick58
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 IIUC there's some absorption material around the cone at some angle (covering some angle), hence the 'directionality'

 

RE: Harry Bosch's System - can you identify?, posted on November 22, 2023 at 10:06:15
WHiiP
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 So many naming the speakers as OHM must surely be correct, but they sure look like ESS speakers to me. With the Heil Air Motion Transformer on top. The original Ribbon Tweeter. It was patented when it came out and therefore the design could not be used by other speaker manufacturers. The patent expired some years ago and most speaker manufacturers (Quality
-wise) are now using their own design of this tweeter.

I have never seen an OHM speaker and I certainly could be wrong.

I have thought about topic a bunch since the beginning of the series.

 

that's a hell of a view, posted on November 22, 2023 at 10:14:46
Story
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 and especially in the middle of the Ohms.

Mcintosh amps and looks like a Garrard TT



 

RE: Harry Bosch's System - can you identify?, posted on November 24, 2023 at 07:00:20
Brad225
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 I got hooked on Frank Morgan with the very short song Lullaby they played during one episode.
I used Shazam to identify the song and now have a number of Frank Morgan albums in my library.

 

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