Hi Simon,

Welcome to Beoworld!

The simple answer is that you can use any speakers (active or passive) with any of these Beocenters - these can be either B&O speakers or any other brand.  The newer 9500 and 9300 models have Powerlink sockets for easy connection of active speakers, but the earlier 9000 can also work with active speakers as well.  All three models have a power amplifier for use with passive speakers.

Each model of speaker has its own "voice", so it will sound different to any other model of speaker with the same music.  This makes speaker choice quite a personal one, meaning that it is always good to hear as many different speakers as you can and choose the ones that you like the most.

My own choice would be Royd Minstrel (passive) for musical accuracy at low volumes, or Beolab Penta 3 (active) for power and drama with beat-driven music and action movies.

If you need any assistance with connecting your chosen speakers, please ask and I will be happy to help!

Kind regards, Steve.

As all three Beocenters (9000, 9300 and 9500) has 4x 8 Ohm output, I guess it's better to connect 4 x Beovox 3000 (8Ohm) then 4 Beovox 75 (6Ohm)  or does this work as good as the 8Ohm speakers? because I think that the 6Ohm will demand more of the Beocenter and as it's not that new anymore, better to stick with the 8 Ohm speakers..

Can someone advise?

Thanks!!!

I find to be the best sound, you need a speaker with a fairly high sensitivity. I tried for the fun my Magnat Transpuls 1500 (95db sensitivity), on all my tube amps they sounding very boomy( low damping factor) but on my bc9500 they sounding so spectacular detailed and the music is flowing with ease. The amp's don't need to work high with these very big speakers ( 15" woofers) . The Redline are very nice speakers but they are soo extremely low in sensitivity....