Help rationalising current Beolab set-up/Dream speaker set-up?

[Calum Clark]

Hi,

I recently inherited my Dads old B&O system with very fond memories of it in action growing up. Its been carefully stored for a while so not currently all linked up and cant find any wires for it so will have to completely replace these.

Would really like to use this set-up to the best of its ability but don’t have the space to house it all and could likely do with some tweaking. Maybe part exchanging some pieces and purchasing some others. It might be completely adequate as it is but my current house definitely doesn’t need all the speakers so going for quality over quantity.

The grand plan is to have a surround sound speaker set-up in a living room without a TV to play records through a non B&O record player (x1 Lynn Sondek and x1 Technic 1210) but also to be able to stream spotify off my phone. I don’t own any CDs so exclusively records and Streaming.

The room is 4m x4m that I would like to be filled with sound so not a huge space.

The current set-up is

X4 Beolab 8000s (Unsure if Mk1 or Mk 2)

X2 Beolab 6000s (unsure which Mk)

X1 Beolab 2 active Subwoofer

Also

X1 beocentre 2 (can sell)

X1 beocentre 9000 (can sell)

I also currently have a x2 B&W s606’s linked up to a Morantz amp which I’d quite like to keep and can add to the set-up if needed.

The question is essentially asking your dream/ideal B&O set-up without spending crazy amounts of money?

I had thought something along the lines of keep x2 8000’s as they are such an iconic designs and keep the sub but then sell the rest and maybe replace with x2 Beolab 3’s to save on space. So would have x2 Beolab 8000’s x2 Beolab 3’s and then the sub.

What combination of the above would you keep and/or trade in and upgrade?

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated from your collective wisdom

Thanks in advance

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