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Genelec S360 Review (Studio Monitor)

Rate this speaker:

  • 1. Poor (headless panther)

    Votes: 6 1.9%
  • 2. Not terrible (postman panther)

    Votes: 9 2.8%
  • 3. Fine (happy panther)

    Votes: 112 35.0%
  • 4. Great (golfing panther)

    Votes: 193 60.3%

  • Total voters
    320
I wish I was still able to regularly (daily) compare different speakers with the knowledge I have acquired in recent years and past experience of demonstrating so many speakers (admittedly lower cost ones than current high end). It seems that dispersion/directivity can make or break a domestic speaker-room interface. Knowing what I feel I know now, I'd love to compare say, a JBL 305 or similar wide-dispersion model with maybe a Neumann 80 or whatever, the latter seeming to have controlled but not as wide hf dispersion if I have it right. In my case, the fact these two are active may well be so much better than my rather old fashioned passives, that the dispersion will be secondary (I'm well beyond hearing hisssssss from tweeters beyond say a few cm away now :( ).
 
Quick question if anyone has the answer:

Since the 8361A's dispersion is (a lot?) wider than the S360A's, will imaging be better (and sound more spacious), speaker more likely to "disappear", and changes in sound less apparent when you move around with the 8361A?
The soundstage will be wider but imaging will be more diffuse and hence less precise. Recordings with few room information captured will sound more impressive, but recordings with real or artificial (like Q-sound) room information will lose their effect of being there, because the reflections overlap the direct sound too much.
 
Anyone know what Genelec specifies the dispersion pattern is of the S360A and 8361A? I don't think the Genelec website mentions this.
 
Anyone know what Genelec specifies the dispersion pattern is of the S360A and 8361A? I don't think the Genelec website mentions this.
Both are reviewed here, all the data is in the reviews… you do even need to leave the topic for the S360 data ;)
 
Both are reviewed here, all the data is in the reviews… you do even need to leave the topic for the S360 data ;)
True. I just wanted to know if they provided any "official" specs for this.
 
True. I just wanted to know if they provided any "official" specs for this.
Yes
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Thanks.

I am assuming the top graph is the S360A and the bottom the 8361A. What is causing the inward bumps around 1500 Hz on the top/S360A graph?
 
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