Pearljam5000
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I just wish they were smooth and shiny like this lol
well designs evolved, and tbh, it's hidden, you can't see it so I always prefer something functional than cosmatic.I just wish they were smooth and shiny like this lol
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But coming back to the loudspeakers to demand it has an optimised reflex port to reduce port noises.in exaggerated terms: you can't demand a pretty girl to not poop right?
Free extended warranty right there. But if it really is a problem I assume it will evolve very gradually, inconspicuously altering the quality of your mixes (if you use them for mixing), only to be noticed once it's very bad. That doesn't worry me though because there are plenty of professionals using these monitors and someone would be bound to notice, way before I do. Nonetheless when mine arrive I will take some measurements and record the test conditions so I can repeat the test a year later, to see if anything has changed.well if it completely tears off in say, 10 years and came up with some replacements which is improved I will actually be happy, as Genelec type company tend to do free service to refurb old speakers out of warranty with that sort of problem, so I will get a free upgrade
Wait, is this whole discussion about some assumed acoustic issue with wrinkly surround? Isn't the purifi woofers proof enough that it's not necessarily so?
These look so damn cool! You could put them into a cramped student dorm, a band practice room or a fancy bauhaus style loft and they wouldn‘t seem out of place.I just wish they were smooth and shiny like this lol
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Ah, of the steeper part of the cone, thank you! People were mentioning the surrounds and then cone fibers, so it didn't connect what people were talking about.
Beautiful Finish women fly to your country and repair the monitors at no costWhat’s the warranty for Genelec!
It scares me tooWhen I saw this initially I thought they were wrinkles... Now they look more like cracks. I'm glad Genelec has a 5 year warranty but I'm curious if that ever has to be used on these in 12 years. My 8260 monitors that I bought used are 12 years old and have no issues. I'm curious if these will last as long since a crack seems like it would be a stress point where a wrinkle would still have similar thickness and strength as the surrounding area. Maybe the crackly looking area doesn't flex though... I'd be curious to see a macro shot while someone pushes the driver forward to see if the cracks open up or are completely rigid and don't flex.
Still look like wrinkles to me, as long as it’s normal and nobody reports distorted speaker found open up and that thing breaks I won’t care about that.When I saw this initially I thought they were wrinkles... Now they look more like cracks. I'm glad Genelec has a 5 year warranty but I'm curious if that ever has to be used on these in 12 years. My 8260 monitors that I bought used are 12 years old and have no issues. I'm curious if these will last as long since a crack seems like it would be a stress point where a wrinkle would still have similar thickness and strength as the surrounding area. Maybe the crackly looking area doesn't flex though... I'd be curious to see a macro shot while someone pushes the driver forward to see if the cracks open up or are completely rigid and don't flex.
I've never seen wrinkles in any driver beforeStill look like wrinkles to me, as long as it’s normal and nobody reports distorted speaker found open up and that thing breaks I won’t care about that.
Or I have a pair of 8030, those scared off by the ones bass driver can find me for exchange
it's not on the driver effective portion, and it's all on the straight portion on the oval geometry, I can only imagine that if it's say the pre press reinforced paper shape is optimized for the round part of the surround and thus some will wrinkle on the long side. I've seen IRL most reinforced paper have some sort of irregularities even on the surface, like tiny threads of fibre sticking out, tiny wrinkles around the embedded fibre.. as long as it don't actually break and cause distortion in a few years out in the wild, I would say it's perfectly normal.I've never seen wrinkles in any driver before
Is that normal?
There's a heap of different drivers with wrinkled texture, slits, slots, ribs, honeycomb, funky surrounds.
These Genelec drivers just look like large internal TV speakers, but then again you aren't supposed to see them so why make them look any better?