Can the /excessiveness/ of the 8361A be better utilised?

[dasdoing]

back in the days I used to bring my old KRK ROKIT8 G1 to 31Hz-ish (in room) with this method. never had any problems, and after all those years I still use the speakers for outdoor parties (not EQed)

 

[unpluggged]

back in the days I used to bring my old KRK ROKIT8 G1 to 31Hz-ish (in room) with this method. never had any problems, and after all those years I still use the speakers for outdoor parties (not EQed)

They have no DSP and no high-pass filter (or it's not as steep).

 

[dasdoing]

at 105dB it limits only in the treble:

here is Armir's Kipple graph aligned to 105dB @1000Hz

it can easily produce 97dB @30Hz therefore

this is a filter:

which produces this:

easy in the limits at 97dB....and without roomgain

 

[thewas]

Also we shouldn't forget the spectrum of most music which is decreasing above 1 KHz, treble above 100 dB sounds extremely loud and neither nice nor healthy.

 

[MAB]

GLM can implement what OP wants to do. Genelec won't allow a low shelf with positive values, so use negative -9dB shelf and add +9dB of system gain.

Let's see how Genelec's speaker plus limiters respond to the EQ. Here is the -9dB shelf, with +9dB of system volume. I smoothed since I was unwilling to move the speaker away from the wall.

We don't get any improvement in 'extension', we get a boost at 30Hz, with the shelf EQ truncated below that: exactly 4.5dB of boost below at 30Hz, no additional boost below despite the shelf. I could likely overcome even this with aggressive external DSP, like some freeware VST plugin. But even with Genelec's DSP brick-walling my shelf below 30Hz, I can see the woofer The woofer visibly moves more with the EQ plus gain, quite dramatically. If I want to change the 20Hz response, moving a few cm is going to be larger than what I just did with GLM.

 

[dasdoing]

Also we shouldn't forget the spectrum of most music which is decreasing above 1 KHz, treble above 100 dB sounds extremely loud and neither nice nor healthy.

this is "not my lover", a short section of Billie jean (1.78s of duration)
we can see that after 4kHz we are 28dB down from the peak