11048437 wrote:

sad news......after Beosound 3200, Beosound 1 and Beocenter 2 ....now the time has come for the Beosound 9000...🙁 dealer confirmed that Besound 9000 was discontinued!

TM – Companies have a tendency to say ‘well, this is a fantastic product – so let’s just leave it at that’.  However, I believe that the better designed a product is the more frequently you should update it.  Actually something like the BeoSound 9000 is still a really good product for us.  Every time we talk about taking it out of the range the dealers shout ‘No, you can’t do that!’

The power of the BeoSound 9000 was immense - appearing in Hollywood movies and in the press and this really moved the company forward, but I believe this product should have been updated every 2-3 years.  This doesn’t mean you should change it completely – but you should keep it ‘fresh’..

 From the famous interview

What CD players are left??

The BeoSound 4... and the BeoSound 4.

😉🙁[:'(]

No one buys CD players any more. Even amazing ones.

I did not know the BC2 was gone as well.

But really, no-one buys CD player anymore. It becomes even more crucial that they figure out the BS5.

TripEnglish wrote:

No one buys CD players any more. Even amazing ones.

I know, I was just shocked.

I try to buy CDs as often as I can - always wanted a giant library of CDs. Call me old fashioned if you want, I just like for my things to be tangible.

Evan wrote:

TripEnglish wrote:

No one buys CD players any more. Even amazing ones.

 

I know, I was just shocked.

I try to buy CDs as often as I can - always wanted a giant library of CDs. Call me old fashioned if you want, I just like for my things to be tangible.

Evan, I'm old fashioned, I have some 400 vinyl sinbles, some 150 vinyl LPs, I never got to like casette tapes, and I have some 300 CDs, started to get some blue rays also, I have 4 VHS players in the storage, I have 3 Cd/DVDs players in the house, and getting modern, 3 Ipods and some sound docks. From now on I will stay with vinyl and vintage, I'm tired of buying new items and, after a while, new software updates every month, staying up to date today is a waste of money. Buying vinyl, even remade, gets you good music, and not the downloaded 190 Kbs "quality", and it stays with you, no computer breakdowns will cancel your music.

I still buy CDs because I want lossless music on my Mac and Beosound 5.  After ripping, the CDs go into a box in storage.  CDs will probably be discontinued completely in probably less than 10 years....maybe sooner.

Beosound 9000 was still in production a few days ago.

Martin

Soren, that sounds awesome. I have two iPods that I couldn't live without. I wake up to it on the dock in my BeoSystem then take it into the car and listen on my way to wherever and then use it with my headphones on foot. The convenience has really made the iPod easy to integrate into my habits. My last iPod is almost 6 years old and working fine, no need to keep up! 🙂

I haven't been buying CDs long, and have a measley count of 40! Linder brings up the good point of ripping in lossless, which I do.