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That is perfect -- very much like my room. I don't like high volume, and will probably get the 8351b (without a sub). Then I can add a sub as necessary. Though it sounds like with the 8361a having a sub in the smaller room would help smooth out the bass.
My 8351B’s have arrived today! Some impressions:
1) In my room, they will go ridiculously loud (for me) before the limiter kicks in. I was listening to a bass heavy song, and it didn’t start limiting until the Genelec calibration mic measured 105db. I could barely stand it, it was so loud. And the bass output was literally rumbling the floor and my desk. So I think for me and my room size, the 8351B was definitely the right choice over the 8360A!
2) The GLM system demonstrated just how bad the acoustics in this room still are. I have much work to do to fix some bass nulls. It was able to correct most though.
3) I initially tried setting them on my desk, which was a mistake and lead to a bad first impression. I believe my mirror-smooth stone desk was causing a nasty +10db treble spike, and GLM doesn’t seem to automatically correct anything above a certain cutoff frequency. Fortunately, placing the Genelecs on my speaker stands where my Neumanns used to go seems to have fixed the problem. I didn’t try manually adding an EQ filter to fix the treble spike because I wanted to understand what caused it first, but I really appreciate how easy and powerful the GLM software is.
4) By default it seems like GLM equalizes to a totally flat in room target curve. This is unpleasant for me, but fortunately I found the GLM software makes it very easy to set the tonal balance to various profiles, including a broad declining slope, which I like.
5) After figuring out they sound bad on my smooth stone desk, they are sounding pretty amazing. I’ve already heard several things in songs I don’t think I’ve ever heard before, which is pretty astonishing to me — I had thought it would be pretty diminishing returns at this point, but I can see why these speakers might be worth the price