Difficult! The last three I have had dealings with all changed hands for nothing! 😁 I have only bought one and that cost me £75 some years ago. I would suggest a figure of about £150 for a good one, which seems very little for such a splendid device.

Good choice my friend. The 4400 is in my opinion competing against the Beomaster 8000 for being the best receiver ever built by B&O. I used my self-restored 4400 at a party with the restorated S75's; I'm 18 which means than much of the played music would be dubstep, bass heavy pop music and of course some good old rock anthems. The 4400 had been been turned up to the "O.Load" lamp blinking to the beat for hours without any malfunction. The heating fins did their job and remained quite warm to the touch. I heard many comments about the cool bass sound of the S75 with the sufficient power from the 4400 (and the Loundness function for giving more bass 😂), girls were interested in the odd-looking flat thing that they asked what the heck it was 😕

I have paid a total of about £50 for mine including the capacitor kit from Dillen, my Father bought one for £120. The prices are fluctuating a bit, but certainly a nice addition to any B&O collection.

I can only go by ebay prices, but it is a market after all and so IMO quite valid!

From what I have seen a mint, working but non-reconditioned 4400 would go for over £100 but it really would have to be mint. I have seen faulty, nice examples go for about £60 - £80 or so.

Some sellers seem to command huge prices for these but I doubt many of them have had a full overhaul!

Reconditioned, which would include new electros, bulbs, trimmers etc. and a thorough deep clean (to me, that means stripping the potentiometers and manually cleaning the tracks as Martin has previously recommended not using de-oxit or other snake oil). it is hard to say as you don't see many fully reconditioned examples for sale! However, I would have thought depending on variables such as the seller, such examples would deserve a far heftier price tag, going by what I have seen in ebay prices mentioned above?

The one I bought had an interesting history. It was one of a consignment bought for the Saudi Royal family and was given to the engineer who fitted them - this was the chap I bought it from and was proved by the box which had the Bin Laden name on it! Unfortunately the box went missing at Bellac, but the receiver lives on - Cleve has it now!

I did buy a non working one on eBay (not advertised as not working!!) for about £70 which was the one Tim and I were going to make into a 4401, but didn't bother when my real one arrived!

I think they are not seen as a particularly good buy as at the same time one could get a remote control 2400 , which looked fantastic (my first new B&O purchase!) and also the 2200 which looked far more modern and which shared much of the circuit design. The 2200 is another very under rated receiver - lots of power, AM and FM, the best preset tuning controls of any B&O receiver and practically hand built.

I paid €80 for mine, with as new woodwork and fully transparent sliders and preset cover.  But also with one channel not working. I will never sell it.

I bought my 4400 a few years ago after it had sat in it's box since coming off display when a store closed down 30 years ago, hence it was in factory condition, and paid £90. I wouldn't part with it for the world.

Considering that a 4400, as is, from Ebay would cost about USD 100.00 inclusive shipping, add spare parts for another USD 100.00, the job.

Reconditioned the right way, I would be willing to pay, USD 250-300.00

Peter wrote:

The one I bought had an interesting history. It was one of a consignment bought for the Saudi Royal family and was given to the engineer who fitted them - this was the chap I bought it from and was proved by the box which had the Bin Laden name on it! Unfortunately the box went missing at Bellac, but the receiver lives on - Cleve has it now!

Indeed I do!    I also have Peter's old BM8000 and I still can't decide which one I prefer to listen to, which of course is a nice position to be in.

As for the value of a BM4400 - as always, it is what it is worth to you.  But how much would it cost to buy a new  Tuner Amp - if anyone still makes such a thing - with the performance, build quality and design of the 4400?  Tim Jarman makes the point how little amplifier design has moved on in the 30+ years since it was last produced.  I suspect  it would cost a lot of money and certainly a lot more than having someone like Frede restore a reasonably good one to mint condition. 

As for mine - it is priceless.  Peter, who I had not met and did not know other than as someone who offered advice on this site, gave it to me.  That meant so much and his gesture had a real influence on my view of the world.   

Cleve

Cleviebaby wrote:

As for mine - it is priceless.  Peter, who I had not met and did not know other than as someone who offered advice on this site, gave it to me.  That meant so much and his gesture had a real influence on my view of the world.   

Cleve

Reading about Peter's kindness restores my faith in humankind. He sounds like a really nice guy! He's truly an inspiation - we should all be a little more like him.