Two observations, both exclusively from well treated rooms on the production side, which has somewhat specialized demands: 1) I'm mostly retired from active involvement now, and the way to keep my people happy is to let them choose what they want, which is kind of fascinating from a third-party observer point of view. The clear preference is for Genelec for film, TV and ADR - i.e. anything mandating the primacy of the human voice. Whereas the people in my purely music operation tend to migrate toward Neumann.
Naturally I have checked, second-guessed, and tried to understand these preferences (because I'm paying the damn bills) and it seems to me that the "wow, this is great to work with" region is about an octave higher on the Genelecs than the Neumanns. Therefore the Genelecs do the clicky, spitty, voice-articulation region better, and the Neumanns do the weighty, complex midbass and low midrange region better. But overall they're similarly competent, and no one would turn down a job if required to work with one rather than the other.
But at home I use JBL passives (4367s) - for "not at work tonight" listening I prefer the slightly plumper, down-tilted effect they give.
