- B&O has recovered and renovated some of its Beogram -plaplad player from 1985
- Only 100 are available, complete with matching BeoLab 8 high speakers
- It’s the third recreated classic offering – but you need deep pockets
Do you want to invest in a new hi-fi system in a more environmentally friendly way? Bang & Olufsen has it covered. Meet BeoSystem 3000C, a music system that reintroduces Beogram 3000 -plate player from 1985. And by 2025 it has been recreated and paired with modern BeoLab 8 stereo speakers in a coordinated ‘craftsman’ finish.
And it’s far from B & O’s first planet -conscious Rodeo. This is the third release in Bang & Olufsen’s recreated Classics series, an initiative dedicated to reviving the company’s most iconic products through object, restoration and reunification.
It is something that B&O has long fucked during its ‘cradle to cradle’ approach (read: everything that goes into a product must be both removable and reusable), as noticed largely in the company’s modular Beosound Theater Soundbar, and recently with the launch of BeoSound A1 3.
As with B & O’s two previous classic (re) releases -the vertical CD player in 1996, I heard just over a year ago, and the similarly recovered Beogram 4000c turntable, originally made in the 1970s -is this series strictly limited; Only 100 individually numbered sets are available. And they are likely to sell as fast as the other offers. Oh how I would love one!
The name of the game is (and has always been) restoration, reengineering and aesthetic reinterpretation. With BeoSystem 3000C, the company explains that handmade walnut and reanodized aluminum are here to “unite the past and present through original materials preserved, cleaned, upgraded and future -proof” by Bang & Olufsen’s trusted team in Struer, Denmark.
B&O Masters Sustainability And I Love It – But Upcycled Don’t Mean Cheap
If you want to buy used hi-fi for a song, check out the tips in our feature on how to buy quality before owned audio set (written as part of Sustainability Week 2025, a month ago) because Bang & Olufsen Beogram 3000C does not fall into the category ‘Cheap and cheerful’.
Make no faults, on top of the fixed walnut back cover and updated aluminum panels that are a new dust lid – and all updated, while the liquid silhouette and groundbreaking tangential tracking technology that made the 1985 model special.
Why did the peppery look? It’s hard to completely renovate a turntable – without a doubt even harder than building one from scratch. Here, for example, all the original aluminum components are separated, pearl -blown and brushed on Factory 5 in Struer, where each unit is carefully renovated by hand.
And to finish the system here, you also get a set of BeoLab 8 stereo speakers with matching walnut lamels and pearl blown aluminum shells.
Ready for the delicate subject coin then? Brace you Friends: BeoSystem 3000C is priced $ 30,000 / £ 22,100 / € 26,000 (so around AU $ 4,640, before shipping and related tasks) and is available from today, 27 May 2025.
No one said sustainable way of life would be the cheaper option …
