Beogram 4000
Jacob Jensen’s record player with a tangential arm – flat, quiet and electronically controlled.
Jacob Jensen designed many of Bang & Olufsen’s products in the 1960s and 70s and gave them a language of their own: flat, low forms, brushed aluminium and controls that are almost invisible.
The Beogram 4000 had a tangential tonearm moved straight across the record by an electronic motor, just as on a record-cutting lathe. A light detected whether there was a record on the platter and how large it was. The record player is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
Materials: Brushed aluminium, rosewood or teak, electronics
Manufacture: Made by Bang & Olufsen in Struer from 1972 to 1976.
The flat brushed-aluminium top with wooden edges.
The arm that runs parallel behind the record and tracks the groove in a straight line.
The platter with raised ribs and no visible controls.