Braun PCS 4
The record player with a transparent lid that became Braun’s defining model.
The PCS 4 was a record player with a transparent acrylic lid that could be lowered over the platter. The clean form and few controls followed Braun’s principles.
The record player became a symbol of German functionalist design in the 1960s.
Materials: Metal, wood and acrylic
Manufacture: Made by Braun in Kronberg, Germany, from 1962.
The transparent acrylic lid.
The white tone arm and the light platter.
The few controls on the front.