braun audio 310 white

Braun audio 310. The flag­ship from the ear­ly 70s. The last of its kind. Desi­gned by Dieter Rams. For coll­ec­tors and sound enthu­si­asts, the­se ste­reo sys­tems with the 60s design are the non plus ultra, becau­se they are abso­lut­e­ly com­pe­ti­ti­ve with today’s devices and also bring the full uti­li­ty value in ever­y­day life. Careful­ly res­to­red, the Braun audio 310 beco­mes a source of dai­ly plea­su­re, espe­ci­al­ly when, in addi­ti­on to the visu­al plea­su­re, the tech­ni­cal per­fec­tion and the ama­zing sound qua­li­ty are convincing.

speaker L 710 & stands LF 700

From the fac­to­ry, the braun audio 310 has two full ste­reo out­puts, to which you can con­nect two pairs of speakers.

With an addi­tio­nal pair of spea­k­ers, the braun audio 310 makes sen­se in lar­ger rooms, espe­ci­al­ly the com­bi­na­ti­on of L 425 or L 625 with the flo­or­stan­ding spea­k­ers L 710 on the spea­k­er stands LF 700 pro­vi­des a tru­ly room-fil­ling sound experience.

The abso­lut per­fect com­pa­n­ion for an audio 310 pla­ced in big­ger rooms. Mid-size loud­spea­k­er, power rating 40 watt at 4 ohm, 2 x 8 inch woo­fer, 2 inch midran­ge dome, 1 inch dome twee­ter, fre­quen­cy ran­ge 25–25000 Hz, size w 17,7 x h 9,8 x d 8,6 inches, weight 30 pounds.

braun audio 310 white & L 625

When the inten­ded spea­k­ers are con­nec­ted to the Braun audio 310 in white, this ste­reo sys­tem built in the ear­ly 70s beco­mes a per­fect designer object. The medi­um-sized spea­k­ers L 625 are the best that Braun built around 1972. In this com­bi­na­ti­on you have the most powerful and best sound­ing ver­si­on from Braun.

From the Braun ori­gi­nal spea­k­ers L 625 comes a powerful, grip­ping sound, which under­goes a cer­tain com­pres­si­on. This results in a clo­sed, well-drawn and warm sound image, which for the con­nois­seur is the typi­cal Braun sound. The L 625 is sui­ta­ble for small to medi­um-sized rooms.

braun speakers L 625 white

The­se sta­te-of-the-art loud­spea­k­ers star­ted in 1974. The L 625 is con­s­truc­ted iden­ti­cal with model L 620/1. The cross­over, the midran­ge dome and the dome twee­ter are the same as in L620/1. The only dif­fe­rence is the modi­fied sub­woo­fer, which garan­ties for voluminous low fre­quen­ci­es. It’s indi­ca­ted power ran­ge is 50 Watt, com­pared to only 30 Watt of the L620/1. So the L 625 can be play­ed lou­der. It has an addi­tio­nal 2 inch midran­ge dome, which results in a more trans­pa­rent sound than L 500 and L 600, which come with just a sin­gle one inch dome twee­ter. The uni­que design cha­rac­te­ristics are the smooth roun­ded cor­ners and the per­fo­ra­ted alu­mi­ni­um front grid. Often the grid is den­ted and the lack of the cabi­net has signi­fi­cant scrat­ches, making Braun loud­spea­k­ers from the 70’s look dreadful. After 40 years the foam beads of the L 625 sub­woo­fer are bro­ken into pie­ces. Per­fect spea­k­ers in mint con­di­ti­on and ide­al­ly with pro­fes­sio­nal­ly rene­wed foam beads are hard to find.

The abso­lut per­fect com­pa­n­ion for an audio 310. Mid-size loud­spea­k­er, power rating 50 watt at 4 ohm, 8 inch woo­fer, 2 inch midran­ge dome, 1 inch dome twee­ter, fre­quen­cy ran­ge 28–25000 Hz, size w 17,7 x h 9,8 x d 8,6 inches, weight 25 pounds.

braun audio 310 white & L 425

The Braun audio 310 is often com­bi­ned with the com­pact, yet powerful and very musi­cal sound­ing L 420/1 or L 425 spea­k­ers. This popu­lar set­up is well sui­ted for smal­ler rooms and also in the near field range.

braun speakers L 425 white

In the seven­ties a wide ran­ge of loud­spea­k­er sizes were offe­red for Braun’s com­pact ste­reo sys­tems. L 420 are the smal­lest available spea­k­ers in Dieter Rams design. They were manu­fac­tu­red bet­ween 1970 and 1974 and pro­du­ce a sur­pri­sin­gly full sound. The uni­que design cha­rac­te­ristic is the per­fo­ra­ted alu­mi­ni­um front grid and also the smooth roun­ded cor­ners of the spea­k­er cabi­net. This pair of spea­k­ers fits per­fect to a braun audio 310 moun­ted in a Vitsoe shelf, offe­ring a clear and warm sound with trans­pa­rent high fre­quen­ci­es and a full bass range.

Small and com­pact loud­spea­k­er, power rating 30 watt at 4 ohm, 7 inch woo­fer, 1 inch dome twee­ter, fre­quen­cy ran­ge 35–25000 Hz, size w 12,6 x h 8,2 x d 6,7 inches, weight 11 pounds

put the needle on the record

The built-in turn­ta­ble model PS 430 X in the audio 310 ste­reo is a stun­ning pie­ce of craft­man­ship. The nice­ly desi­gned tone arm has a lift, for the first time ever in Braun turn­ta­bles. This is the main dif­fe­rence to the audio 300, whe­re you don’t find this fea­ture. Usual­ly the­re is a Shu­re car­tridge in the headshell, the stylus can still be orde­red nowa­days. The auto­ma­tic switch-off at the end of the record is very com­for­ta­ble. After a tech­ni­cal main­ten­an­ce ser­vice, done in a qua­li­fied spe­cia­lists work­shop, the turn­ta­ble works like it did on day one and will do for deca­des. Here you find the ori­gi­nal Braun stylus track­ing force gauge.

FM stereo radio

The recei­ver of the Braun audio 310 has seve­ral bands. The out­da­ted Short­wa­ve, Medi­um­wa­ve and Longwa­ve are accom­pa­nied by a sepa­ra­ted FM ste­reo sec­tion. The­re is a field inten­si­ty meter and a ste­reo indi­ca­tor lamp, which give the FM sec­tion a com­ple­te look.

When con­nec­ted to a good anten­na, the qua­li­ty of the radio recep­ti­on is gre­at. You can con­nect to cable also.

is a braun audio 310 network ready?

With its 5‑pin DIN con­nec­tors the Braun audio 310 offers two addi­tio­nal inputs for ste­reo signals. One is a tape input, the other is cal­led ‘reser­ve’. Wha­te­ver the designer have thought of, they’ve made a good decis­i­on by adding the­se two more inputs. You can easi­ly con­nect a CD-play­er, or a high end web­play­er onto the 5‑pin DIN con­nec­tors found on the down­si­de of the machi­ne. A blue­toooth adap­ter can be con­nec­ted too, allo­wing for music strea­ming direct­ly from your cell pho­ne. The braun audio has out­puts for two pairs of spea­k­ers, which is good for lar­ge rooms. For the Ame­ri­can mar­ket a power con­ver­ter like the KCC Her­cu­les is recommended.