Behrelec 37
Senior Member
These sound the same as the 8361a, but the sound image is bigger.
But when I listened to these 8380a models a while ago with a friend of mine in a store, and this friend of mine has 1238a speakers at home and a big Genelec subwoofer, the 8380a settings were not at all right in the midrange, and the sound of metal music, specifically the Finnish heavy metal band Sentenced's album The Cold White Light, was far too thin with these speakers. With the 1238a models, on the other hand, the same heavy metal music sounds solid and remains solid even when played louder in the midrange. We were a little disappointed, but they still produce a very clean sound and can be enjoyed in many ways. However, I would still possibly choose the 1238a speakers if the midrange cannot be made more effective with glm adjustments.
Now it didn't go as it should have. These are such expensive speakers on the market that you would think they would exceed the quality criteria of the previous generation, and in terms of sound purity, they certainly do, but I don't know if the GLM single-point measurement was set too straight. Maybe better adjustments and luck will come in the future.
The music source was a streaming service in an audio hifi/high end store, and Quobuz was available the whole time. We also listened to other music genres for about two hours straight, and they worked just fine, but heavy metal didn't work with the above band, nor did Accept. Unfortunately, I don't remember the songs my friend played on these 8380a models. I would say that these speakers also benefit from Genelec's larger subwoofers, which were 7380a. We listened to them separately and together, changing the GLM software groups on the fly with a computer mouse.
But when I listened to these 8380a models a while ago with a friend of mine in a store, and this friend of mine has 1238a speakers at home and a big Genelec subwoofer, the 8380a settings were not at all right in the midrange, and the sound of metal music, specifically the Finnish heavy metal band Sentenced's album The Cold White Light, was far too thin with these speakers. With the 1238a models, on the other hand, the same heavy metal music sounds solid and remains solid even when played louder in the midrange. We were a little disappointed, but they still produce a very clean sound and can be enjoyed in many ways. However, I would still possibly choose the 1238a speakers if the midrange cannot be made more effective with glm adjustments.
Now it didn't go as it should have. These are such expensive speakers on the market that you would think they would exceed the quality criteria of the previous generation, and in terms of sound purity, they certainly do, but I don't know if the GLM single-point measurement was set too straight. Maybe better adjustments and luck will come in the future.
The music source was a streaming service in an audio hifi/high end store, and Quobuz was available the whole time. We also listened to other music genres for about two hours straight, and they worked just fine, but heavy metal didn't work with the above band, nor did Accept. Unfortunately, I don't remember the songs my friend played on these 8380a models. I would say that these speakers also benefit from Genelec's larger subwoofers, which were 7380a. We listened to them separately and together, changing the GLM software groups on the fly with a computer mouse.
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