Electronics brand Bang & Olufsen has collected and restored several hundred units of its 1990s-era Beosound 9000 CD player, giving them a second life as a limited-edition product for fans of physical media.
Released under the name Beosystem 9000c, the offering pairs the classic CD player ? instantly recognisable for its linear display of six CDs ? with the brand's new Beolab 28 speakers.
Bang & Olufsen sourced 200 units of the CD player for the project, returning them to its factory in Struer, Denmark, where they were disassembled and inspected and had their components cleaned and repaired.
The Beosystem 9000c is an update that makes use of restored Beosound six-CD players
The factory is the same one where the machines were first created in 1996 and some of the technicians that worked on the restorations had also worked on the original products. Bang & Olufsen gave the units a reimagined look, inverting the colours on the original design so that the CD display panel is deep black and the overlapping control bar is aluminium.
According to head of design Tiina Kierysch, this has the effect of enhancing the machine's "graphic edge" and helps the CDs to stand out even more as artworks.
The CD players are paired with new Bang & Olufsen speakers to make a sound system
"The result is timeless and showcases that even though the two products were designed in different decades, they become closely related through the application of colours, materials an...