Genelec setups in living rooms [how to]

[Descartes]

My living room

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The sub is almost bigger than the TV! Are these 8360? They are big

 

[Descartes]

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Very nice but one suggestion remove the tables from the front of the center channel and the sound will be much better!

 

[Nattage]

Here's an idea for folk with an ultra short throw projector and a Genelec centre speaker on it's side, like mine or on a table....
Buy a second isopod kit for your speaker, attach it to the top (other side) of your speaker and place the ultra short throw projector on top.
May look a bit Heath Robinson, someone else care to try ?

 

[juliangst]

Just mount the center above the screen.
Genelec recommends an angle of <15° for front speakers.
With a 16:9 screen centered on eye level and at the correct viewing distance the angle will only be 11°

 

[BDE]

IMO don`t use a center speaker, a good phantom center is better than any compromise in center placement. Actually I preffer a phantom center.
Or if you insist in using the center channel, one speaker above and one underneath the TV/ screen.

Here's an idea for folk with an ultra short throw projector and a Genelec centre speaker on it's side, like mine or on a table....
Buy a second isopod kit for your speaker, attach it to the top (other side) of your speaker and place the ultra short throw projector on top.
May look a bit Heath Robinson, someone else care to try ?

Here we discuss about good design, so no option.

 

[juliangst]

Two centers will be a lot more problematic than just one and are difficult to set up without external DSP.
As I said before, a center above or below the screen will only have an angle of 11° which is non problematic

 

[Nattage]

IMO don`t use a center speaker, a good phantom center is better than any compromise in center placement. Actually I preffer a phantom center.
Or if you insist in using the center channel, one speaker above and one underneath the TV/ screen.


Here we discuss about good design, so no option.

 

[DMill]

it all boils down to how much you want the room to be beautiful vs the perfect measured listening space. If you have a room you want to listen like an audiophile wet dream with treatments on the walls and ceiling… good for you. If you want the room to look good to everyone else in the world that absolutely could care less about a 3db dip at 100hz... the speakers will be good for that too. People say Gene‘s look bad. In the right room they look great.

 

[juliangst]

I‘ve heard this point quite a lot but just don’t get it.

Why should treatments generally make a room look ugly?
A nice ceiling cloud absorber with spot lights or some fancy diffusor panels look way better than just bare walls

 

[Holmz]

IMO don`t use a center speaker, a good phantom center is better than any compromise in center placement. Actually I preffer a phantom center.
Or if you insist in using the center channel, one speaker above and one underneath the TV/ screen.


Here we discuss about good design, so no option.

I concur 100% .
The main reason to use a center channel is for many people watching needing a wide angular spread of sound.
If there is only 1 or 2 people, then the reasoning for center channel is different than a handful of people in a dedicated basement room.

 

[DMill]

I‘ve heard this point quite a lot but just don’t get it.

Why should treatments generally make a room look ugly?
A nice ceiling cloud absorber with spot lights or some fancy diffusor panels look way better than just bare walls

There are definitely some better than others. Most of the ones that look decent are expensive. It is truly subjective when it comes to looks. Some would argue the best looking room has no visible speakers at all. I think the problem us audio nerds have is cables, cords, albums, a broken DAC, and empty pizza boxes scattered across the room with a beat up reclining chair in front of $20k worth of electronics. You know who you are . That said, I take back my statement and definitely think it’s possible to design a nice looking space without it looking like a college dorm room a 50 year old dude with money lives in.

 

[namcheonbee]

Any suggestions folks?

I heard some Genelec 8020, quite impressed with the tone and what they can do for their size.

Now thinking about Genelec speakers for my bedroom, 95% stereo music listening, movies the other 5%. I live in an apartment.

The room is 3.5m x 4 m. Listening distance 2.5-3m

I will use a MacBook with an RME ADI.

Genelec 8040? 8340 with SAM or not needed? 8050? G4? G5? Maybe all within budget.

Or wait and save up for something else? The Ones?

I don’t want a sub in this apartment.

 

[juliangst]

Any suggestions folks?

I heard some Genelec 8020, quite impressed with the tone and what they can do for their size.

Now thinking about Genelec speakers for my bedroom, 95% stereo music listening, movies the other 5%. I live in an apartment.

The room is 3.5m x 4 m. Listening distance 2.5-3m

I will use a MacBook with an RME ADI.

Genelec 8040? 8340 with SAM or not needed? 8050? G4? G5? Maybe all within budget.

Or wait and save up for something else? The Ones?

I don’t want a sub in this apartment.

Neumann KH120 II looks like a better deal imho

 

[JamesYeomans]

Any suggestions folks?

I heard some Genelec 8020, quite impressed with the tone and what they can do for their size.

Now thinking about Genelec speakers for my bedroom, 95% stereo music listening, movies the other 5%. I live in an apartment.

The room is 3.5m x 4 m. Listening distance 2.5-3m

I will use a MacBook with an RME ADI.

Genelec 8040? 8340 with SAM or not needed? 8050? G4? G5? Maybe all within budget.

Or wait and save up for something else? The Ones?

I don’t want a sub in this apartment.

I’ve been using 8340s with GLM in my kitchen, of about the same dimensions. They work great! Haven’t felt the need to swap them out with the spare pair of 8341s that I have.

 

[Nattage]

Move of apartment has given me the chance to remodel my setup. Particularly happy with the 3.5mm headphones cable extension, to put the volume controller on a side table by the sofa. The cable and all the genelec network control wraps around the far side of the room in cable wraps.
It sounds way better now it has the space to breathe.

 

[Descartes]

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Move of apartment has given me the chance to remodel my setup. Particularly happy with the 3.5mm headphones cable extension, to put the volume controller on a side table by the sofa. The cable and all the genelec network control wraps around the far side of the room in cable wraps.
It sounds way better now it has the space to breathe.

Sweet setup you need a larger TV!

 

[Kain]

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Move of apartment has given me the chance to remodel my setup. Particularly happy with the 3.5mm headphones cable extension, to put the volume controller on a side table by the sofa. The cable and all the genelec network control wraps around the far side of the room in cable wraps.
It sounds way better now it has the space to breathe.

Nice.

What are the dimensions (length and width) of your space?

 

[phile2]

um...
I'm wondering...
is this thread all about to show how "I'm well-off".... ?
SQ ?!... "great of course !... given the price I paid for that ! That's OK !"

At least it's give to the common people (me) some ideas about interior design....

 

[Nattage]

6m wide, 4m to the rears.
Yes, a bigger TV would be nice.
Yes it's a bit showy offy, but hopefully shared here to give folk ideas rather than to gloat. It's a mixture of injinuity and having spent way too much...

 

[Yorkshire Mouth]

Sweet setup you need a larger TV!

That was my thought, too. Given the price of the speakers, you can buy an 80” TV for a couple of grand.