Hi pepps, I’m excited that this has finally launched, it has been an honour to provide a very small part of this project, namely the adapter cable that links the Beogram into the Core. A lot of work went into this one small aspect of the product ? To answer your question, the Beogram 4000c used in this system has an MMC cartridge made by Sound Smith in the US, they make cartridges for just about any Beogram model and I use their SMMC4 on my Beogram 3500 at home with excellent results. Kind regards Steve.  

Really ? Sorry to be bitter again but this is starting to look like the Omega brand that can't stop to produce infinite different flavors of their "once in the past" bestseller Speedmaster watch. Appart from the fact I don't like the color scheme at all, I wonder how many iterations we'll see in the future: pop colors Basquiat yellow/red/blue? All mat black version? Limited original colors version? Beoplay H4 tangerine like edition? It just kill the hope I had in the "Recreation" trend when the first 4000c came out, that made me hope for some other comebacks that I understand will never be.

Hi Matador, I like the colour choice - yes, the colours are bold and unusual but it is certainly striking.  I love the fact that B&O's design is often bold and the way they can make a 51 year old turntable look completely at home with the new Beolab 28 speakers is quite an achivement. I'm looking forward to seeing it in person, as sometimes material colours don't show well in photographs.  The cabinet certainly looks interesting and has a true mid-century Danish style. I'm pleased that B&O aren't standing still with their design, but they are keeping their vintage products alive whilst pushing the boundaries of modern styling. I would be interested to hear what other Beofans think? Kind regards, Steve.  

Hi Steve - thanks for your comments regarding the stylus. Makes sense to use a tried and tested marriage. How cool to have been involved with the functionality of the system!!

Hi Matador - I think personally I find this new product cool because it was only last summer that I visited the Struer museum and saw first hand so many examples of music centre cabinets. So when I saw this 72-23 I was taken straight back to some of those beautiful old designs. It makes me feel happy that B&O have done this because I couldn't help feel that after the demise in popularity of "hifi systems" in the early noughties, they didn't have much to offer. I hope those who are in a position to buy one of these do so and learn to love it for many years. It's a brave move and won't please everyone. But this firm we all love has never feared being a little controversial.

60,000 Euros. That's what I think.  A hefty price increase of the 72-23 over the 72-22, not just from the 18s-->28s? Steve, does your cable have ginger-colored cloth braided jacket?!?!

Hi trackbeo, No, my cables aren't braided as it doesn't add anything to the sound quality.  They are hidden inside the top of the cabinet (where a hinged shelf conceals the Core and the Transmitter 1) so sound quality is the top priority here.  However, I do like the idea of ginger braided cables.... ;-) Kind regards, Steve.

Hi everyone, Hi Steve again, I don't share Steve's enthuthiasm (and he very well know why, right?). Whoever Beoworlder coud make "almost" the same set for the fraction of the price; most of the money economy being in a forum-guided-beogram-4002-refurbishement-project, up to everyone to choose his own components. My choice was an original BG4002 because I like the color (loved the 4000c in his champaign color promo pictures but real life yellohish pictures proved to be too much "nicotine*" to me), Beolab 8000 over  Beolab 18 because its all I can afford and a 70€ Playmaker and some Powerlink wires instead of a Core, Emitter and whatever else. The result may not be Hi-Fi or two-point-zero but I'm listening to records with the eye candy. I remember Leo or maybe Moxx, ironically saying "new beoplay=new colors". I feel the same here and it's sad for me. Not that I dont understand people that will go for it, they surely will and its good for them and for the brand (moneywise). But sad in the idea that they sold us (the few of us) an idea that was "we're going to recreate many of our iconic products, wait and see". I remember a thread in BWII where people where guessing what would be the next "recreated" products, part of the new "recreation" program. In the end it's just the Beoplay, new colors strategy. Nothing more. Up to anyone to like it or not. But to be complete, the exercise, yes, would have to have ginger colored wired!       ;-)

I have a few Beogram 4002’s in the closet. Maybe I should make a 2SLHBTQA+ version? Just jam all the colors onto it.

The Beograms are literally in standing in the closet. I did not mean to make a joke.