It partly depends upon your room size, the S45-2 are certainly ok, but they would not be able to handle the absolute full power output, but most folk do not drive their amps that hard.

You can usually pick up S75 for a reasonable sum, could well be worth a shot.I've driven Pentas with this amp too.

That amp is certainly capable of coping with S80, I think you'll find that folk reckon the S120 are good speakers, but you'll struggle to find a pair that are free from foam rot - this can be cured but it does cost.

Getting your hands on the M70 or M100 isn't easy, but I have heard claims these are pretty good.

Interesting question. I have just got a Beolab and Beomaster 5000 and am currently using some CX50s due to limited space in my home office. If I can be bothered moving things around I might try the Beolab 5000 with my Beovox Pentas in my home office, or with my MC120.2s in my bedroom. 

Long-term I would like to use the Beolab 5000 as a stand-alone main room system, and had been considering some big RL140s or maybe even some Beovox 5000 panel speakers as an interesting match. I wonder if anyone has tried either of these with the Beolab 5000?

S120's / MC120.2's sound very good connected to a Beolab 5000. I now have Beovox Pentas and these sound great as well, I only changed to the pentas for the looks not the sound.  I would go for one of the bigger uniphase speakers or pentas really.  I like the idea of Beovox panels with it though.

Remember that there is a good chance that what ever you buy will need refoaming but dont let that put you off as its not too hard a job to do and is quite rewarding when you sit down and listen to your newly rebuilt speakers.

My best choise will allways be speakers developed for the product in question - the Beolab 5000.

Speakers for the Beolab 5000 is Beovox 5000 or a 'not so known' speaker the Beovox 3000.

The best choise is Beovox 5000 and for me I prefer MKI or MKIII of this speaker. If this will be your choise, you will get a fantastic sound and really getting the best of the Beolab 5000 system. If you also connect a couple of Beovox 2500 Cube's the sound will be further improved. Last week I also connected the Stereo Box and a Beovox 3000 as center speaker - (The Beolab is designed to drive a center speaker too) - this is even more fantastic, I would say, this is a kind of unknown improvement for owners of the wonderfull Beolab 5000 system.

/Frede

While my journey continues trying to find the 3000/5000 and 2500 cubes as Frede mentioned...

I have used S60's that sounded fantastic. I have recently moved my BL/BM setup to a large nightstand next to my bed and added a pair of 2200's. Though they are lowly rated, I never play it loudly in the bedroom anyway. As a side note they are a perfect match. The cabinets are the same thickness and grain and it really looks great together -as if made for each other.

burantek wrote:

I have recently moved my BL/BM setup to a large nightstand next to my bed and added a pair of 2200's. Though they are lowly rated, I never play it loudly in the bedroom anyway. As a side note they are a perfect match. The cabinets are the same thickness and grain and it really looks great together -as if made for each other.

I have the same setup! 🙂

tournedos wrote:

I have the same setup! 🙂

Would you like to swap pics? 😂

I'll go get my camera!

This is unfortunately a horrible mess around that kit, I'm not going to show it to anybody! 😂

@Stephen: I guess you can safely follow Frede's advice if you want "the best" - but as you can see from the other answers, you can use just about anything! I've also tried mine with Pentas and S80.2s and they were just great.

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