I recently asked my dealer whether B&O had any plans of releasing a new turntable, given the resurgence of vinyl and the company's past reputation regarding these products.

He replied that there had been something a while ago. Whether it was just a question asked to the dealers, or whether a concept or prototype was shown to them, I do not know, but apparently the general consensus among the dealers was that given the forecasted RSP of this "21st century Beogram" (approx DKK 30,000 or EUR 4,000), the number of potential customers was too low for this to be worthwhile.

Mind you, I have no way of knowing whether this is true or not, so please take this with a spoonful of salt...

BS9000 looks with large LCD and perfect old B&O quality...and with all modern stuf in the unit :)  plus app remote :)

In response to Lee & Stonk  -  I don't really see the point of this, as nearly all radio stations can be streamed from your phone to a portable bluetooth speaker?

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Nigel

VANTAGE wrote:

I recently asked my dealer whether B&O had any plans of releasing a new turntable, given the resurgence of vinyl and the company's past reputation regarding these products.

He replied that there had been something a while ago. Whether it was just a question asked to the dealers, or whether a concept or prototype was shown to them, I do not know, but apparently the general consensus among the dealers was that given the forecasted RSP of this "21st century Beogram" (approx DKK 30,000 or EUR 4,000), the number of potential customers was too low for this to be worthwhile.

Mind you, I have no way of knowing whether this is true or not, so please take this with a spoonful of salt...

A new Begram would be a nice thing for those of us who still occasionally (at least) play vinyl, but it'd be a bad business decision IMO. The kind of people who pay that kind of money for an analog rig are the audiophile crowd, who like to constantly play with mats, clamps, different cartridges and such. I seriously doubt any of them would for an instant consider a Beogram, no matter how high performance it actually was.

I see the same issue with things like the Beolab 90. By all reports a stunning speaker, but the type of people in the high end audio community willing to pay that much for a high performance speaker are not philosophically receptive to B&O's design approach or the company itself. First thing two of my old audio buddies said when the subject of the BL90 came up was how awful it was that B&O didn't make it possible to use good tube amps or Class A transistor amps instead of those awful Class D monstrosities. Sadly this kind of audio bigotry is rampant in the high end.

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The iOS app development team could upgrade the app to become "Now Playable" so it can be controlled from the lock screen:

Jeff: I fully agree… And that is also, I guess, what the dealers thought when they were asked (assuming this anecdote is true). After all, there are a lot of turntables available on the market that cost way more than € 4,000. But a B&O customer, however wealthy he/she is, is not an audiophile customer such as the ones you describe: the latter spend more time tweaking their equipment than actually enjoying it :-)

Klaus

I want more GVA enabled products. It should take so long to update the M3 and M5.

And an universal sound center (similar to Harmony) but at a price point just above the Stage. A Stage like product but with the ability to connect existing B&O speakers.