New mysterious Genelec monitors

[Pearljam5000]

Oval or racetrack drivers are more compact (compared to piston area) than circular drivers. The Ones are compact, this speaker (the Main One as they call it) isn't trying to be.

It's still pretty compact , Focal Utopia is 202cm high

 

[Axo1989]

It's still pretty compact , Focal Utopia is 202cm high

True, it is in fact smaller (or shorter) than I expected. Of course the Focal has some grace to go with its tall stature. This Genelec is like staring at a four-eyed engineer.

 

[Sokel]

True, it is in fact smaller (or shorter) than I expected. Of course the Focal has some grace to go with its tall stature. This Genelec is like staring at a four-eyed engineer.

I have seen Grand Utopia in grey in a house with similar aesthetics and even if room was big they still dominated a good chunk of it.
Finish is faultless (even if it doesn't give the "feel" of the big Sonus Faber which is unique)

Different use case,different needs,different tools I guess, and when it comes to looks it's so personal that any opinion is both right and wrong.
I would really like to listen to Gen's,I'm really curious about the midbass (which I think it's the whole design targets,as lack of it is a sour grape usually) and elevated (even at only 1,2 (?) meters) highs and if they give the feel that other big ones with high tweeters give.

 

[thewas]

Titanium is old news
Zirconium is the real dealView attachment 287080

If I were you I would wait for loudspeakers made from unobtainium.

 

[Pearljam5000]

If I were you I would wait for loudspeakers made from unobtainium.

Not exotic enough for me

 

[dedobot]

Don't match your Genelecs to your room aesthetic. Match your room aesthetics to your genelecs. Concrete walls look better than white walls anyways.

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Looks like a torture chamber Sort of that in "Puppet on a Chain" novel but modern version.

 

[TurtlePaul]

I love the fact that people are focusing on the size of the aluminum faceplate and the use of MDF elsewhere. Nobody is focusing on $70k/pair speakers using paper woofers.

Not aluminum. Not ceramic coated. Not magnesium alloy. The woofers are clearly paper.

I think this is fine and paper woofers sounds good. However, I would expect the materials brigade to note that there are a dozen “more pistonic” driver materials than paper.

 

[Pearljam5000]

I love the fact that people are focusing on the size of the aluminum faceplate and the use of MDF elsewhere. Nobody is focusing on $70k/pair speakers using paper woofers.

Not aluminum. Not ceramic coated. Not magnesium alloy. The woofers are clearly paper.

I think this is fine and paper woofers sounds good. However, I would expect the materials brigade to note that there are a dozen “more pistonic” driver materials than paper.

What material is this ?

 

[Axo1989]

What material is this ?View attachment 287212

I always assumed those waveguides were a composite, but maybe they are aluminium. As for the rest, damned if that doesn't look like the infamous bargain-bin black ash. But it's likely painted/stained plywood if not a veneer.

But you mean the bass drivers: may well be the same paper, I guess look it up?

 

[Axo1989]

I love the fact that people are focusing on the size of the aluminum faceplate and the use of MDF elsewhere. Nobody is focusing on $70k/pair speakers using paper woofers.

Not aluminum. Not ceramic coated. Not magnesium alloy. The woofers are clearly paper.

I think this is fine and paper woofers sounds good. However, I would expect the materials brigade to note that there are a dozen “more pistonic” driver materials than paper.

Haha, stirring up trouble?

Fwiw my four-ways have three drivers in ceramic-coated aluminium and a (sub)woofer of paper so it's all good.

 

[dedobot]

What material is this ?View attachment 287212

Fine Asian beauty !

 

[Pearljam5000]

I like the sandwich Focal drivers
They feel super durable

 

[beeface]

A lot of people are talking about this ugly, ignoring the fact that 99% of the units Genelec are going to sell will end up in studios, purchased by people who aren't concerned about how they look.

Fine Asian beauty !

I've always found the fetishisation of race rather odd. If you must objectify her, would it not suffice to simply refer to the woman as a "fine beauty"?

 

[Tks]

Just found out what these are today. My goodness, 6Kw amp, 126dB, $64K pair... Who's this for real talk?

 

[Pearljam5000]

Just found out what these are today. My goodness, 6Kw amp, 126dB, $64K pair... Who's this for real talk?

If I win the lottery they're the first thing I'll buy

 

[beeface]

Just found out what these are today. My goodness, 6Kw amp, 126dB, $64K pair... Who's this for real talk?

You know, this is one thing I don't know much about but am curious to know:

There's supposedly a lot less money in the music industry than there was 30 or even 20 years ago for record labels, especially major ones.

Meanwhile, there's been a boom in bedroom studios, and Focusrite have sold roughly a gazillion interfaces in recent years.

What's the market like for big-ticket studio devices these days? Surely demand is way down?

Maybe a question for another thread.

 

[dasdoing]

What's the market like for big-ticket studio devices these days? Surely demand is way down?

mastering engeniers?

though most probably wont have the cash

 

[Pearljam5000]

mastering engeniers?

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though most probably wont have the cash

Where is this from ?

 

[dasdoing]

Where is this from ?

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[beeface]

My question was definitely more about the size of the market, not who