Bang & Olufsen History: Why a 1996 CD Player Is Coming Back

👉 Subscribe to The Fallen Giant!    / @fallengiantstories   Why restore a CD player when your phone already holds your music? This Bang & Olufsen history follows the designs people kept—and the work needed to bring them back into a home. • David Lewis’s Beosound 9000 put six CDs behind glass in 1996. Choosing an album set a visible mechanism in motion. • The player could sit horizontally or stand upright. Its shape let a music collection become part of the room. • Jacob Jensen’s low-profile designs required engineers to rethink how working parts fitted inside the case. The appearance depended on what happened underneath. • In 2020, B&O’s first restored Beogram 4000c series comprised 95 turntables. Bringing them back meant inspecting and repairing old machines. • The Beosystem 9000c pairs a restored CD player with two modern Beolab 28 speakers. The complete system starts at $55,000: the price belongs to the set, not the player alone. The film also follows the business behind these objects, where a lasting reputation does not guarantee a profit. Which piece of audio equipment would you restore rather than replace? Timestamps 00:00 Why restore an old CD player? 00:29 The machine returns to its maker 01:48 1925: powering radios without batteries 04:04 Jacob Jensen and the low-profile design 06:35 Beogram 4002: automating the turntable 09:09 Beosound 9000: six discs behind glass 13:14 The €145 million car-audio deal 15:39 Restoring 95 Beogram turntables 20:08 Beolab 28: speakers that open up 21:56 Beolab 90 and the 800 Hz dip 26:59 When design does not guarantee a profit #bangolufsen #bangandolufsen #beosound9000 #beosystem9000c #beolab28 #beogram4000c #vintageaudio #hifi #danishdesign #audiohistory #cdplayer #industrialdesign