The Beosystem 9000c CD Player
Bang & Olufsen’s reissued classic will make you want to dust off your CDs
It has taken this writer several decades to figure out what Bang & Olufsen really is, design-wise.
You see, for me, the essence of B&O has always seemed to be a 1960s or 1970s Stanley Kubrick–movie set designer’s vision of what home gadgetry would look like in the 2020s. But ironically, now that we’re in the 2020s, B&O’s products look like the work of an unbelievably brave and futuristic designer from at least 50 years ago.
