Used 5.

Not much into buying used, but I could stand a used BL2 or a pair of BL5. They feel indestructable.

Hi!

My choice would always be the used Beolab5, simply the best speaker B&O ever made.

Concerning room sice: Yes Belab5 can be quite imposing in a smaller room but I could live with that. I think that with the calibration option of Lab5 the room size is less an issue than with the rest of the B&O speaker range.
I know the problems of powerfull speakers is small rooms as my Pentas are in a room were Lab4000 would largely be sufficient. 😕

my two cents

Foxtrott 

Used Lab 5s especially if the price difference is 20%.

Good Luck, and please post pics for those of us who can only dream of owning a pair, and have to live vicariously through this forum!

-Sal

Thanks guys,

Sal, tell me about it, I used to be normal, but now im going crazy! The funny thing is that b+o dont have too many products, but they are so hard to obtain! haha

In terms of value for money I'd have the used 5's. I trust the calibration option will take care of the room size issue. I'm not entirely sure about that as I've only listened to them in a rather large room.

The ABL will handle any issues in a smaller room with BeoLab 5s. In fact they can really work in a room smaller than the BeoLab 9s can, which is quite something...

I too would go for BeoLab 5s...

I'd always go for the 5's. However, whether this is practical depends on your situation. The BL9's are overpowering even in medium sized rooms. As I've posted before, the guys in the apartment two floors below have complained - twice - about the bass.

If the BL5's can handle this better (as Alex says), then the BL5's. However, I think they'd dominate my living room - they are much larger than the 9's!