Stunning new turntable released by B&O, Beogram 3000. Very good looks in my opinion, probably nicest from B&O. Speakers completing the system are uselessly small not to offend wife. Priced for bezos and muskrat.
https://design-milk.com/bang-olufsens-beosystem-3000c-brings-back-a-vinyl-icon/
https://design-milk.com/bang-olufsens-beosystem-3000c-brings-back-a-vinyl-icon/
Ive had a couple of B+O turntables and it occured to me that they are awfully thin and chintzy for the price. The cost of a cartridge is nearly prohibitive and the cartridges are proprietary. You cant use them on another turntable unless its a B&O. For a DIYer maybe not a problem to overcome all of its shortcomings but i prefer to start with something a little more robust.
(My 2 current tables are a Fairchild 412 and an empire 208.)
The B&O offerings seem to be at the polar opposite of the scale in terms of physical robustness/mass/structure.
Educate me. What does the B&O design do that other disk spinners can't?
Does extremely low mass everything result in a better turntable in some measurable way?
Edit: for 30k
30k is the price.
Id hazard a guess that you could build a better turntable for that price and still have enough left over to buy a new hyundai.
(My 2 current tables are a Fairchild 412 and an empire 208.)
The B&O offerings seem to be at the polar opposite of the scale in terms of physical robustness/mass/structure.
Educate me. What does the B&O design do that other disk spinners can't?
Does extremely low mass everything result in a better turntable in some measurable way?
Edit: for 30k
30k is the price.
Id hazard a guess that you could build a better turntable for that price and still have enough left over to buy a new hyundai.
Explained "Head of Product Circularity & Portfolio Planning at Bang & Olufsen". You what? When a company creates a job title like that you can be sure it has lost its engineering focus.
Judging from the picture with piles of records next to it it's not really a product for true vinyl lover.
I had the chance to look inside the B&O TT once. All I remember was that the sub platter was surprisingly heavy and the bearing was superb. For some reason they decided to concentrate the rotating mass there and sacrificed the usual large flywheel effect of the edge of the platter. Contrary to the looks it was actually quite robust. Soud was very good, brief w/f measurement with phone app quite promising (I do not remember the numbers though).
I had the chance to look inside the B&O TT once. All I remember was that the sub platter was surprisingly heavy and the bearing was superb. For some reason they decided to concentrate the rotating mass there and sacrificed the usual large flywheel effect of the edge of the platter. Contrary to the looks it was actually quite robust. Soud was very good, brief w/f measurement with phone app quite promising (I do not remember the numbers though).