Dear Friends!
We are all gathered here not to tell each other about the advertising features of certain monitors, but in order to achieve the TRUTH through joint efforts, conducting our own investigations as well as we can.
For example.
Mr. Amirm honestly talks about the inability of most of Genelec monitors to reproduce very low frequencies, and the rapidly emerging clipping their amplifiers.
As an engineer in the past, I'm well aware that the rapidly occurring clipping effect is due only to the fact that Genelec is trying to maintain linearity of output sound, deliberately limiting power of their monitors. These are not technical limitations of equipment, but an attempt to keep within certain (linear) parameters.
And I have to give my opinion to all members.
I found this thread 2 days ago. I suppose this is an amazingly useful forum thread!
With all due respect I believe that Mr. Ilkka Rissanen is a liar.
In the photos posted by Mr. Scoox clearly shown that the edges of the driver diffuser are damaged. Most likely, this is a constructive miscalculation on the stiffness of the paper. I have experienced this effect as I have designed drivers for a company in Czechoslovakia in the past (over 30 years ago).
With the wrong choice of materials for the driver diffuser (or rather, the wrong calculation of its stiffness), with a high input power, a large load on the diffuser arises, hence the delamination of the diffuser paper.
Mr. Ilkka Rissanen undoubtedly knows this effect (as an engineer), but he pretends that everything is fine.
After all, this is a complete fiasco! = Design miscalculation.
Of course, Mr. Ilkka Rissanen does not admit it, because the cost of each monitor is impressive 4 thousand dollars.
Plus you always need to save face.
So he is lying, instead of offering the owner of the disassembled monitor a driver replacement.
Please note, friends:
on the production line (in the photos), all drivers are in perfect condition, the edges of the diffusers are smooth
We don't have to be a fan of the Genelec company, we should always try to figure it out, despite your hobbies for this or that brand.
Thank God that a member of the forum Mr. Scoox figured it out and told us about such a problem.
For me personally, buying Genelec speakers now is out of the question.