Between the BeoSound 4 and the BeoSound 3000 I would take the latter every time. In my opinion, it is a design classic. However, I should mention that I have owned a BeoSound 2300 in the past, which gave me so much happiness for many years. It did not play MP3 files or take SD cards; only radio and CD but my, what a statement it made. It had a smaller round piece of glass clamping the CD opposed to the larger one used on the later 3200 systems. If you took MP3 and SD cards out of the equation I would definitly suggest hunting down one of those. It was a magnificent system until the BeoSound 9000 came along which was even more magestic!

Thanks for this post. You are taking me back to the days of Bang & Olufsen products that were the absolute dreams of the range for me. All of these products have firmly established themselves as top B&O design, form and function classics, totally unsurpassed, so you couldn't go wrong. Before signing off however, I must be honest and say that there is a certain 'something' about seeing the BeoSound 4 wall mounted, but I still don't think it has anywhere near as nice a design as the BeoSound 3200 and earlier models.

At the end of the day, follow your heart. Best of luck!

Simon.

another difference between the bs3200 and bs4 is the maximum size for mp3 files.

the bs3200 stores up to 396 cds (no matter whether 80min or maxi cd), organized into 4 different groups. the hdd is like coffin in a grave that is still open: you can record and play back and that's it.

for the bs4 you can use sd cards with a size up to 2gb(?) giving room for 20-40 cds at 128kbs. of course sd cards are detachable and rather inexpensible so you can hold a couple of them. but i guess whatever sd card is in the bs4 it is always the wrong one so you have to change it.

imo the bs3200 is for the lazy user (like me :-) who does not want to bother about the size of free memory until it is running out.