My Obsession with the Quiet Movement

It always begins with silence. A room waiting, the reflection of aluminium and oak catching the first light. You press the button — and the TV doesn’t just turn on; it comes alive on its motorised floor stand, unfolding like a thought. Then the quietest motion begins — that whisper of precision that doesn’t need to be heard, only felt. It’s the kind of silence that makes you look up, that prepares you for what’s coming next.

That’s the beauty of Bang & Olufsen’s motorised floor stands and wall brackets. They move not like machines, but like a living thought — calm, deliberate, perfect. Two hundred kilos of glass and aluminium come to life, turning, gliding, aligning — and yet there is no sound, no vibration, no resistance. Only purpose.

I remember back in 1992, the first time I saw the BEOsystem AV9000. The glass door sliding open, the red line scanning the disc like a heartbeat. It was pure theatre. That was the first time I understood that technology could be alive, that it could perform, that it could have emotion.

And that same feeling still lives today — in the BEOvision Harmony, the Eclipse, the Avant. The way the screen moves forward from the wall before turning toward you. The way the motor floor stand rotates in total silence, like it’s breathing. It doesn’t just move; it transforms the room, and it transforms you with it.

The stand itself weighs maybe twenty kilos, but it carries more than ten times that weight with perfect balance. It can turn thirty-five degrees from the wall, or twenty-six if placed closer. It remembers every position, every mood, every moment you’ve saved — and always returns with the same precision, the same calm authority. You can feel it — but you never hear it.

That’s what keeps me obsessed. It’s not only about sound or picture; it’s about the motion between them. That quiet preparation before the story begins. The way the motor wakes up, the way the room holds its breath. Every single time I see it move, I get the same feeling inside — the same as back then with the BEOsystem AV9000. Goosebumps. Every. Single. Time.

I’m forty-seven now, and I still turn on the BEOvision not because I want to watch something, but because I want to feel that moment again — the moment where silence turns into motion and motion turns into emotion. That’s my obsession — the quiet movement. Where engineering disappears, and Bang & Olufsen becomes poetry.