New mysterious Genelec monitors

[Pearljam5000]

Wishful thinking :
$10K a pair

 

[Curvature]

Wishful thinking :
$10K a pair

You seem very childish in these moments.

 

[Pearljam5000]

You seem very childish in these moments.

I'll take it as a compliment

 

[Sebastiaan de Vries]

My guess is they are around 30000 a pair. They can’t be much higher since, for a full-range system, you still need subwoofers. Secondly, it still needs to make sense from a price point in the 83xx line-up.

On a side note, I hope Genelecs next subwoofer uses a form of active bass steering as well.

 

[fragzone]

They look absolutely hideous. Do not want.

 

[AdamQ]

They look absolutely hideous. Do not want.

Each to their own but I do find it curious as to how much importance some people place on aesthetics for an object that is solely designed as something to be listened to. ‍

 

[hege]

They can’t be much higher since, for a full-range system, you still need subwoofers.

Well it's full range enough, much more than 1235A. Similar to W371a, but yeah one can say it might need subs also.

Secondly, it still needs to make sense from a price point in the 83xx line-up.

Does it make sense that 1236A costs double of 1235A, 80-90k vs 45k with only practical change being driver size (15" vs 18"). TOTL pricing does not need to make sense. One can hope of course.

Dunno why they even put it in the 83xx lineup as it just confuses being with the aluminium eggs.

 

[Pearljam5000]

Damn I can't wait another day

 

[Pearljam5000]

What's unclear is
Why not sell just the monitor itself without the bottom enclosure with the dual subs and make it optional
( something like Kii 3 with or without a BXT)

 

[Sokel]

What's unclear is
Why not sell just the monitor itself without the bottom enclosure with the dual subs and make it optional
( something like Kii 3 with or without a BXT)

Because the whole thing is designed and works as a complete system,being separate (top-bottom-amp's rack) is probably for convenience as well.

 

[voodooless]

Because the whole thing is designed and works as a complete system,being separate (top-bottom-amp's rack) is probably for convenience as well.

Indeed, the front 15" and side woofers probably are for directivity steering. To sell only half would not make sense.

 

[holdingpants01]

I don't think you'll need subs with these, I have a pair of 7360A which specs about the same in terms of bandwidth with -6dB at 19Hz, however those are anechoic measurements, in my room they go flat to 15Hz

 

[davidperrenoud]

Just realised that they are fully closed. Explains the 3dB lower SPL than 1235A and need for twice the power. A bit of departure from their usual ported dogma.

The bottom part of the 8381A does have a port at the back similar to the W371A.

I do not know what the limiting factor of the 8381A is compared to the 1235A but funnily enough, the technical specifications of the 1235A now lists it as having a "Quad Midrange System" with four 5-inch drivers.

 

[Sokel]

The bottom part of the 8381A does have a port at the back similar to the W371A.

I do not know what the limiting factor of the 8381A is compared to the 1235A but funnily enough, the technical specifications of the 1235A now lists it as having a "Quad Midrange System" with four 5-inch drivers.

It also lists the 3U rack amps,similar to 8381A.
Did they had these before?

 

[hege]

The bottom part of the 8381A does have a port at the back similar to the W371A.

Ah ok I missed the pictures.. the bottom I guess is around 160 litres, it's enough for 2x15" tuned ~30hz?

 

[新しい人]

The bottom part of the 8381A does have a port at the back similar to the W371A.

I do not know what the limiting factor of the 8381A is compared to the 1235A but funnily enough, the technical specifications of the 1235A now lists it as having a "Quad Midrange System" with four 5-inch drivers.

I asked the Genelec staff on Twitter and he said it was just a mistake.

 

[dasdoing]

they are professional, but Genelec does have some kind of anti-design-design thing going on lol

but as others have stated, I take any professinal design over those strange high end designs

other places are already posting excerpts from the PDF

The love hate relationship with Genelec - Page 22 - Gearspace.com

8381A cat is out of the bag. The '81' means point source 15' woofer all this came from the 8381A brochure that was previously posted. It uses two amp connections in the back.

gearspace.com

there is a 5" mid/compression driver combo inside that horn?

 

[Frank Dernie]

they are professional, but Genelec does have some kind of anti-design-design thing going on lol

I designed Formula 1 racing cars.
Everything about the design was functional. There was absolutely no styling done to the functional design, only the marketing dept’s artwork for the paint job.

I have always seen design of functional items as 99% engineering from a personal perspective.

For domestic products aesthetic styling of a functional design will be important for sales.

Members of this forum are not the principle market for this product so any peripheral attraction for domestic use is a side issue for Genelec, I expect.

 

[fineMen]

Sorry, you lost me…what the hell are you talking about?

It was a reaction to somebody else's suggestion to define another one as the fanboy #1.

I've seen that often, namely that once your general mindset it challenged, the English is an obstacle.

I find it particularly disconcerting that all you speculate and chit chat about a speaker that GENELEC is going to offer, but didn't reveal any details about but published a snippet of a photograph that you interpret as gospel (instead of laughing out loud about this funny marketing trick). For the time being I just pretend to not know what the correct term for naming this kind of behaviour may be.
It only associates too well with most or even all guys being lost when it comes to details of the actual technology and the always chuggling understanding of numbers and graphs.

But please, it's your delight

 

[dasdoing]

I designed Formula 1 racing cars.

wow

but I think it's a little diferent. you have no choice with F1 cars. you shure have some choice when designing a speaker even without compromising the result