Just got back from six days in Santa Fe, NM. Lots of beautiful desert country, particularly on the ride between the Georgie O'Keeffe home and studio in Abiquiu, and further north in Ghost Ranch where, at one time, O'Keeffe also had another home and smaller studio. The tour of her Abiquiu home was fabulous, the location, the views, and how the O'Keeffe Musem in Santa Fe has managed to keep so much of her place intact.
But I figured of some interest here would be the fact that O'Keeffe was quite the audiophile, and all of her equipment with the exception of the speakers which are long gone, has remained exactly as it was when she died. O'Keeffe ran two top quality systems, one in the large living room in her home, the other in the smaller adjacent stuido building. The tour does not allow interior photos, or entry into the living room in the home, it has to be viewed through a doorway from the kitchen, or through the big windoow that opens to the garden in the back. On a long table I could see two turntables...information is that both are Elac Miracord turntables, and the electronics are McIntosh. I'm pretty sure the amp was the MC225, not sure about the preamp.
The other system was in the studio and that area was on the tour. And that little system was right there...
This is a stock photo, again no interior photos allowed, but the little home made cabinet has the Elac Miracord 50H turntable on top and a Marantz 7 tube integrated amplifier mounted on the slanted section underneath. The open bottom space was full of tubes from Radio Shack and some other accessories. O'Keeffe also knew just how she wanted her music to sound...the amp had tape residue on all the controls which she had taped down so that nobody could mess with her settings...and there were friends and visitors there all the time. Many of them stayed in the guest bedroom right there in the studio, which had the best views of any rooms on the property, and early on she found that people refused to leave her gear alone.
Her record collection, almost all classical was extensive and that is long gone as well. It was a great tour...highly recommended.
But I figured of some interest here would be the fact that O'Keeffe was quite the audiophile, and all of her equipment with the exception of the speakers which are long gone, has remained exactly as it was when she died. O'Keeffe ran two top quality systems, one in the large living room in her home, the other in the smaller adjacent stuido building. The tour does not allow interior photos, or entry into the living room in the home, it has to be viewed through a doorway from the kitchen, or through the big windoow that opens to the garden in the back. On a long table I could see two turntables...information is that both are Elac Miracord turntables, and the electronics are McIntosh. I'm pretty sure the amp was the MC225, not sure about the preamp.
The other system was in the studio and that area was on the tour. And that little system was right there...
This is a stock photo, again no interior photos allowed, but the little home made cabinet has the Elac Miracord 50H turntable on top and a Marantz 7 tube integrated amplifier mounted on the slanted section underneath. The open bottom space was full of tubes from Radio Shack and some other accessories. O'Keeffe also knew just how she wanted her music to sound...the amp had tape residue on all the controls which she had taped down so that nobody could mess with her settings...and there were friends and visitors there all the time. Many of them stayed in the guest bedroom right there in the studio, which had the best views of any rooms on the property, and early on she found that people refused to leave her gear alone.
Her record collection, almost all classical was extensive and that is long gone as well. It was a great tour...highly recommended.
) (description switched with the MC240 amp mentioned above)
