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B&O are at it again...

Lovely. I'm too much the hifi enthusiast to have such an integrated system (and I can't afford one) but stunning kit.
 
Another company that just totally misses the mark! Surely someone would have had the thought “I know, do you think we should include a streamer as well. You know, as things have moved on quite a bit”. But then it would have been £60k, I have a few B&O products, but quite honestly they deserve to go bust!
 
If you’re looking for the best sound for your £45k, I doubt you’d find it here… but that’s not really the point for it’s target audience.

If other modern B&O kit is anything to go by though, it won’t sound crap!
 
Weiss-Man said:
Another company that just totally misses the mark! Surely someone would have had the thought “I know, do you think we should include a streamer as well. You know, as things have moved on quite a bit”. But then it would have been £60k, I have a few B&O products, but quite honestly they deserve to go bust!
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It does include a streamer, but it’s not really the point of this.
I was interested in the Beogram 4000 reissue until I saw the price.
 
”Included in the box: 6 x carefully selected CDs”

I wonder what they are?

PS The original was a design classic in its own way, as was so much B&O stuff. Pleased to see some CD resurgence anyway! The CD revival starts here! I’ll be rich as I’ve got a house full of them!
 
Although B&O may not be for every pink-fisher, it's a bit of an iconic design, I like the idea of a refurb and reissue of an older product (whether or not actual changes and deviations from the original are good or not I don't know, we seem to have an audio restomod!), but they've gone totally nuts on the price. More-or-less tacked an extra zero on the end.
 
I watched Taylor Swift's Eras video (don't judge me - 3 and half hours of TS is karma enough) on a recently dealer-installed B&O home theatre set up. It went loud enough and rattled the windows, but was otherwise a bit muddy. I preferred my Mum's Sonos. Ginormous screen didn't detract from the amazing theatre of Taylor Swift's show tho.
 
Jono_13 said:
Beautiful, but the price!!

Beosystem 9000c
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I quite like the idea of revisiting 'classic' designs in this fashion. I thought the 'back from the dead' 4000 turntable was stunning.

In any case, I doubt price matters much to the customers for this stuff, they'll buy it because they want it, and what a bunch of geriatric farts on a hifi forum think will trouble them – or B&O – not a jot.

I confess an awful lot of modern kit makes me think 'the cat's sat on the keyboard again' (what looks like too many repeated numbers); remind me how much a lot of recent 'anniversary' kit from 'proper' hifi manufacturers has cost.

I guess it'll sound pretty good too, a lot of B&O kit actually performs better than many in the 'it's all gloss, no substance' camp might realise. The fact you could get a different sound from a 'normal' system is irrelevant in their target market.
 
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