Is anyone mixing Genelecs with other surround speakers in livingroom ?
I have Marantz sr 7013 with 5+1+4 Canton speakers.
Could i use 2x 8350/8351 as main + 8351 as center and still use my old cantons surrounds? Will the delay in Genelec destroy the sound or can Marantz Audessy compensate?
I have a very mixed surround system, mainly because I added it to an existing stereo and am probably not anywhere near optimum for watching films but I don't do that often.
My front L&R speakers are Goldmund Epilog 1&2 I have been using almost 30 years now with sound even-ness originally optimised by room and listening area adjustment using the now ancient MLSSA many years before DSP compensation became feasible.
My centre channel is a Genelec 8341a which I bought to see what all the fuss is about
)) and hopefully improve intelligibility of dialogue, it replaced an old Meridian M33 active and the other two speakers are M33 as well.
My sub is also ancient, a REL Studio bought from the factory when Richard Lloyd still owned the company, probably around 30 years ago. There wern't many subs around back then.
I have a Marantz AV7704 and Audyssey does seem to get the timing sorted for watching films, both for all these disparate speakers and syncing with the video.
I had been considering changing the Epilogs to either 8351B or 8361A with W371 but find the looks too dispiriting and I still enjoy the Epilogs hours per day and am probably too old to get 30 years of use out of them. The 8341 looks quite nice to me but the featureless area of the speaker gets too big in the 8361 to my eye.
