Thanks Ev 🤒 

Seems it is only used as a center channel speaker....

A Dieter Rams Braun masterpiece to go with the B&Os.

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Lex Lance wrote:

A Dieter Rams Braun masterpiece to go with the B&Os.

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Cleviebaby wrote:

Lex Lance wrote:

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Lex,

That's a lovely looking TS45 - Im a great admirer of Rams as a product designer as well - even my Avatar is a photo of his redesign of Peter Walker's original electrostatics. 

Whilst I also admire Jensen's work for B&O and I've got quite a bit of it now, I think they come from very different design philosophies.  Rams is almost the archetypal 'Form follows function' designer whereas Jensen, with some notable exceptions, seems to start with a shape or form and leaves it the engineers to resolve how the thing will work.  Two approaches, equally valid but very different.  I love both!

Cleve    

Gentlemen,

may I suggest you trim the quotations a bit (don't include the pictures) when it is otherwise clear which pictures you are referring to. We now have the same (although very nice!) pictures three times on top of each other.

Not a real problem otherwise, but IMHO it makes browsing the thread a bit tedious (oh my poor scroll wheel! 😁 ) and also caused John's post above to go into the automatic moderation queue.

Good point Mika! Will do.

Cleve

Thanks guys,

Yes all the lights work on the TS45, looking at expanding the Braun collection also. The do work nicely with the BnO gear. TG60 and L450 flat panel speakers to come.

Absolutely two very different design approaches from both Dieter Rams & Jacob Jensen although equally effective.

Seems there's a group of us that like Dieter Rams' work for Braun - that includes Tim Jarman!  He has an article in this month's 'Hi Fi World' about Braun Hi Fi kit from the 60s! 

Interestingly, there is a German company still making the Rams intepretation of the Quad Electrostatic ESL57 loudspeakerm (the LE1) under licence in Germany, but it's in excess of 6000 Euro! 

Beware, though - prices of the older pieces of Hi-Fi on auction sites like e-bay make vintage B&O look positively cheap! 

Cleve 

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This is a part of my collection. I also have a Beosound 9000 in my workspace, connected to set of Beolab 6000. Als a complete Beosystem 6500, a Beocenter 9500, a Beolit 707, a Beosystem 10, a set of LC2 controllers, ... these are all in my workspace, but since it's a total mess in there at this moment, I didn't want to make pictures in there. Maybe I will post an update when I cleaned it...

Very nice Beofreak,

Got a Togo too, most confortable sofa, ever!

Lex Lance wrote:

A Dieter Rams Braun masterpiece to go with the B&Os.

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what a nice sergio mazza's bacco table - love it!

great thread btw! there are some very beautiful homes to drool on this thread.