very useful, thank you, 

im guessing from the specs the 8000s are close-ish to the beolab 3s.

and I can always cut the bass with the remote if I’m getting distortion.

so either path is viable, I’ll just have to see what’s looking good on the second hand market.

thank you all so much!

For what it's worth, I've never loved a speaker as much as I did love my BL11, until I got the BL20's.

The BL11 delivers such a clean, neat and fast bass reponse while also able to make the windows shake with a chopper in a movie. Sure, it won't disturb the neighbours as much as a BL2 could, but the cleanliness (in sound), the full control that the music source seems to have over it, made me absolutely in love with the BL11.

Which in my case was used with 2 BL6000's, by the way.

So... Owner of a BL11 for more than 10y now in combination of my BL8000's

Had the BL2 on loan for my dealer before the BL11 came out... But the BL2 is tooooo much. Complaints from neighbours upstairs that their Velux windows were shaking. Explosions in movies were earthquakes... but too much when living in an appartement.

The BL11 is just perfect in a 50m2 livingspace. Giving enough bass for movies and giving the BL8000s breathingspace for music.

AND! The looks are still, even after all these years, just brilliant!

Karel.

kuyttendaele wrote:

AND! The looks are still, even after all these years, just brilliant!

THAT! There's never been a subwoofer that looked as good as the BL11. And for the record: that's not an opinion, it's a fact 😁.

jc wrote:

THAT! There's never been a subwoofer that looked as good as the BL11. And for the record: that's not an opinion, it's a fact .