First of all, Bang & Olufsen has a strong history with turntable design dating back to the 1960s. It was not a difficult task to choose the first product to be recreated as part of our Classics Program. Why did B&O choose to recreate the 4000c for this series? We spoke with Bang & Olufsen’s Senior Global Product Manager Mads Kogsgaard Hansen to find out more: First up in this series, the iconic Beogram 4000. Ninety-five years after B&O’s inception, the company launched the Classics Program – dedicated to reimagining its most beloved products. The 4002 was the first turntable model to feature B&O’s signature, automated tangential tonearm, for example.Ĭoupled with its golden metal exterior, a hypnotic, spirograph-like platter bearing geometric lines, and its atmospheric, smoked cover, the turntable’s external aesthetics are as enticing as the electrical finesse that lies within. The turntable is accurately self-described as: “a no-compromise, electronic gramophone featuring absolutely top specifications and obsolescence-proof design” – a statement that holds true decades later.

The sound reproduced is as close to the original as modern technology permits.”ĭebuting in 1975, its Beogram 4002 record player was the realisation of the company’s ‘form follows function’ mantra in technologically-driven, design glory. “The objective was to devise the best and easiest way to play a record, rather than to design a new record player,” shared B&O in its catalogue for the Beogram 4002 model. When Bang & Olufsen began creating what would become the iconic Beogram 4000 series turntable, its inspiration was, seemingly, simple:

Behind-the-scenes of the iconic record player’s resurrection.

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