With a 4Giga onboard memory, don't we lose the versatility of the BS2 BS3 BS4 system, that allows to carry music on different supports?

I think I'll definitely keep my BS2....

Laurent.

I was planning to swap my BeoSound 2 for this one, because:

-it finally has a direct USB connection

-it has a higher memeroy capacity

-it would have come with a leather case 

- the original Samsung has a built in FM tuner, photo viewer & microphone

Now that the specs are here for the rebadged B&O version, it comes out there is no FM (I could understant that B&0 would have got rid of the photo & mic options, on a BeoSound, but why on earth removing the tuner????).

B&O has told us SD cards were the future, they have a range of SD card BeoSounds, and now this one comes with none!!

It is Itunes compatible but plays no AAC format[:'(]

Is is XP compatible when all the world is shifting to Vista (whether it is good or not is no the point)

It is based on USB 1.1 (it says 2.0 support, but how fast are we going to store 4 Go of music on it?)

The USB socket is not standard but a proprietary connector (so if you forget your cable on holidays, you're stuck)

and the leather bag looks pathetic!

Who will buy this?

Well I'm glad they did release Beosound 6!

Why? Well because it now makes me realise what a nice machine the Beosound 2 actually is🤩

Who hired this Steffen Smelling?!?!        

 FIRE him!
 

BnO is definetely to late with this kind of mp3 player !! It wins only with its materials like steel and silicon rubber thats all. And without doubt the sound processing will be excellent. But the Ipod Touch fits a way better with my Bno stuff then this BS6. This company needs some new talented visionary people/designer or whatever.

Back to the drawing board on this one. Glad I have my BeoSound2!
They should have spend the money on updating the base of the BeoSound 2 to USB2.0

Karel.

I love B&O but in this case I rather go for this player:

It looks dated, (it looks especially crap in the leather pouch, like some sad soul with his phone attached to his belt), its specs are crap (USB 1.1??) and it'll cost a fortune. I've no doubt it'll sound good but I'm sorry - this is so far down the "Not Good Enough" scale its almost a criminal attempt to steal money from brand concious folk (look out for them around a footballer's neck near you soon!).

Someone at Struer should feel properly ashamed.

Just buy the Samsung version and a pair of A8s, and save the cash for some proper B&O..., this is not good enough!

By the way, why is the leather case brown and not black?!?!?!?

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Chr.

"the design is nothing special yet not ugly"

 Do we pay B&O prices for the design to be nothing special? I certainly don't. I think we are all use to the peculiarities of B&O interfaces on products that broadly make compatibility difficult with other products (that's been going on for years -- see postings on cables and inter-connects) but they have rarely provided bad design.