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We're planning a move and I'd thought about selling my Century and buying something new. Partly just for a change and partly because I'm scared of breaking the glass moving it! Anyway, I was looking over the last few years of products and it looks like anything similar is designed to work off a net subscription service or be a bluetooth speaker linked to your iphone, or am I missing the wood for the trees here?
It's for the kitchen/diner and I really don't need much more than Radio4 in the morning and the ability to put on a few other things from time to time when I'm cooking. I'd thought about may be a BeoSound 3 which you can pick up on eBay but am I right in my analysis of the current audio range?
That, or the Beosound 1 (not the current one), which was the smaller, glassless successor to your Century.
Living Room: Beosystem 4, Beolab 7-2 (Center), Beolab 9 (Fronts), Beolab 8000 (Rears), no Subwoofer. Screen: Sony KD-85XH9096Dining Room: Beosound Essence MK II with Beolab 4000 on stands, fed by Amazon Echo Show 8Home Cinema: Beosystem 4, Beolab 7-4 (Center), Beolab 1 (Fronts), Beolab 4000 (Rears). Projector: Sony VPL-HW55Home Office: Beosystem 3, Beolab 7-4, Beolab 5000, Screen: Sony KD-55XH9005 on Beovision 7-40 stand, ML to Beosound 9000 MK3 and Beosound 5/Beomaster 5 (1 TB SSD version)Bedroom: Sony KD-65XH9077, Beosound Essence MK II with Beolab 6002 and Beolab 11 (all white, wall-mounted)
In storage: Beolab 5000/Beomaster 5000 (1960s).
Just to add, that it does seem that all of the modern range is aimed at streaming and internet radio. However plenty of the older stuff can be adapted cheaply to keep up - for example your century could just have an airplay device connected to the aux input and then you are upto date! I have vintage equipment that is connected so that I can airplay to it.