Hi folks. My name is Scott and while being new to the forum I'm not new to B&O products. However, I have a setup dilemma and while I have a couple of solutions, I'd appreciate a bit of perspective from the more learned...

My equipment currently consists of Samsung 9 series TV, Onkyo TX-NR3009, BL5, BL2, BL7.4, BL8000, BS4

So, my set up until recently has consisted of Onkyo as the A/V hub, BL8000s as fronts, BL2 as sub and the 7.4 as centre. This worked fine but it was always my intention to replicate the 7.1 setup I had in my previous house. To that end I recently bought a pair of BL5's that I've been promising myself for years and have them as front mains, BL8000's as rears and 7.4 as centre. I've ditched the BL2 as the 5's are bassy enough. All good so far......

However, the BL5's don't pop as well as they should and I get that I'm doing them no favours by using a non-B&O sound source and line-in. Buying a B&O TV is not an option as I love my 9 series Samsung so I was thinking of picking up a Beosystem 3 and either running that as my main A/V processor in place of Onkyo which would give me the benefit of using Powerlink to connect all speakers, making them all work to their fullest capacity.

OR,

Keeping Onkyo and running RCA's from that to BS4 (as front main), then powerlinking the BL5's to that. Now I'm not 100% sure that would work but the benefit is that it would utilise all my current equipment and still get the BL5's powerlinked.

Any thoughts on that or, indeed, any other options that I might not have considered would be very gratefully received.