The Beosound 9000 for me as well, followed by the Beolab 5s.

Also, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Remember, said with respect, a lot of B&O users tend to have a bit of an 80s/90s design appreciation.

When I look at some of those older objects, particularly anything with shiny chrome, it just looks incredibly dated now, so has lost its 'beauty'.

For me, the Eclipse is actually quite a stunning object with the frame smoke oak grille. The BV14 was similarly stunning with an oak fret. You don't get anything like this in the industry, which is why we should appreciate the design.

A9

Beolab 18

Bv14-55

A9

Beolab 18

Bv14-55

How can we possibly not in include the BeoCom 2? It's like having a Brancusi sculpture in the room.

Dillen wrote:

One thing that can be said for sure, is that B&O definitely changed their view on design over the years.
Here the oldest and newest item in my collection side by side for comparison.

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And Beotime isn't the worst looking product they've come up with.
There's nothing like it. 

Martin 

Thanks Martin,

That is a very striking picture!  Please may I share this and include it with the photos to feature on my channel?

Kind regards, Steve.

Of course, Steve.

Martin

Thanks Martin!

I have a silly one for you. Clearly items like the Beomaster 2400 , Beocenter 9500 and Beolab 8000 are all worthy contenders, buy one product that really showed me the way B&O felt about their products was the one I am going to suggest. The SP8 cartridge was a pretty standard SP cartridge although it was designed for the Beogram 3000 Thorens, a superb though not that beautiful a deck. What makes it stand out however is the box thait came in. A cardboard outer contained a beautifully made rosewood box. This was completely over the top and was lovingly made with properly jointed corners and a perfect fit. The slightly sad thing a dealer told me was that these were notrmally thrown out by the dealer after fitting the cartridge! I have had a couple - I gave one away but still have one and although the contained cartridge is useless to me as my 3000 has a different arm and bespoke cartidge, trhe box remains by my desk as a reminder of the craftsman who worked for B&O and their suppliers.