While that depends on many factors including the reproduction chain that is not important as if they would sound very different also their recordings would sound very different.
That's the problem.
If you have listened the KH120 only in your home and the Genelec in show rooms with very different conditions I wouldn't be to sure there.
I'm pretty sure Becaue obviously I know the KH120 sound perfectly well
I think you overestimate the auditory memory and underestimate the influence of different listening conditions where for example the tonal balance is influenced by the bass room response. While sounding different I wouldn't say the differences are huge (I had owned for many years both the KH120 and M040) which is nicely shown in the above recording. If you find some other direct recording comparison which shows big differences please feel free to post it here.
Devil’s advocate, lol, but in this video I think there are clearer differences. The Neumann’s sound a little quieter but you can turn it up a bit when they play. In the second part of the song when the back-up singers enter in their voices sound like there’s a bit of bloom from the Neumann’s that’s not there in the Genelec.
And I think you overestimate sound demos on on YouTube (no offense to you )
Like you say different levels and most important different sizes thus different woofer directivity, a matching comparison to the HS5 and 8030 would have been the KH120.
Again the mics might change the response but they do it for both, while they cannot make two different signals sound the same (linear transfer function).
Never use YT to compare speakers. You hear more room and recording technique, but speakers. You dont know if it was level matched etc. Plus you never know about the microphone used, it´s calibration, it´s position, movement etc. And lastly, were the speakers configured correctly (Genelec and Neumann have various switches in the back, which one can set accidentally wrong). All in all you can savely discard any YT (at least I havent seen a single one worth watching for speaker sound).
Apologies if my response came across as too serious…it was a tounge-in-cheek response to thewas. It is curious that videos that demonstrate differences seem to cause outrage here, lol.
All good. Internet communication is not easy at times.
How do you level match doing real world listening tests? I never thought about it until you said that.
I should have been more clear. Do people actually level match? I’ve done many tests and never once did I level match. Food for thought.
You must do level matching. Our ears are not linear with volume. Therefore any difference between speakers will be much larger when not matched. Also, we tend to pick the loudest speaker as the best sounding one.
Yes level matching is absolutely essential.
Most dealers do not do this. Never has one level matched for my listening.
