Wall mount the BeoLab 6000s! The brackets are very good IMO and the BeoLab 6000s are ideal as rear speakers unless you're really going to be playing super-loud movies. Means you can get BeoLab 5s as fronts then. May seem a long way to stretch, but as you know, it's a lot of speaker!

The Avant has no multi-channel inputs, and it's built-in decoder can't decode uncompressed multi-channel audio, sadly. The built in decoder is excellent though...

In theory yes you should worry about impedance matching, but in reality I haven't found it to have any affect when transmitting digital signals. I've transmitted HDMI signals down a mixture of XLR leads over a 20m run and it showed no issues, even though it theoretically shouldn't work.

Correct, although you may wish to mention to the B&O dealer that you purchased the speakers off the original owner, or else they may believe they are stolen.

PowerLink must be connected too! Connect the Digital output to one of the digital connections on the BeoLab 5s, and then connect the other digital connection to the connection on the other speaker (so the two are daisy-chained). The same goes for the PowerLink. FYI, there is no such thing as a 'digital' cable. Any cable will work fantastically well

Russ is right, you're getting several things confused. PowerLink is used to connect speakers to a Stereo or TV/BeoSystem, not to link the CD player to a TV or visa-versa.

Save up and get a pair of BeoLab 5s as fronts, and use your BeoLab 6000s as rears! You could even sell or part-exchange your BeoLab 2 to bring down the cost of a pair of BeoLab 5s. Look for an ex-demo pair too!

msinn: Moxxey, following your argument nothing will become popular and cheap, even DVDs would still be high in price and unpopular. It's a process, wihich starts slowly. For DVDs it took a couple of years. The end of HD-DVD is a start. So Blu-rays get a bit more popular. From that, the price will drop a bit, which makes them a bit more popular,

BeoLab 3s are perfect as rears if you've got something like BeoLab 3s, 9s or 5s as fronts, as they give you all the advantages of the acoustic lens (ie, not just blurting sound out into the room in a largely uncontrolled fashion like most loudspeakers), but they also give you enough volume output for any rear-channel application and are immensely flexible

Fantastic little player - by far the best 'all-in-one' I've heard on the market, and that includes Meridian's little thing IMO (which costs more and looks like the offspring between a car accident and toaster). The lack of DAB is an advantage - DAB isn't going to be around for as long as many think, and IMO, FM will outlast DAB. Also bear in mind that