We have little idea how distortion in speakers will correlate to listener impressions. No sense for that to affect scoring unless it's majorly problematic, which it did not seem to be to a trained listener. It's also a 3-inch woofer, there's only so much you can expect.
More importantly, from reviewing speakers and getting reader questions and feedback, it's become clear to me that people who buy small speakers buy them because:
1) it is what their budget allows, as small speakers are usually cheaper
2) they actually want small speakers for their particular space/aesthetics/whatever
So the argument of "just buy bigger speakers" is usually DoA. For some people, the difference between a 3" a 5" speaker is significant.
I often find myself in those two groups. I want good sound, but I don't want a pair of giant monitors on my desk. I also need speakers for my digital piano, and for that, the smaller the better. It's already unreasonable enough that I have three speaker setups(five, if you count smart speakers) in a small apartment shared with a partner (and three pets)
Anyway, small speakers can be great. I enjoy the various multithousand dollar living room setups I've reviewed but frankly I often feel like enjoy listening at my desk with tiny speakers more, sometimes even without a sub. This might even just be be sure my desk is in a quieter part of my apartment. We have to work with the space we've got.
Lastly, it's worth noting that these are small enough you might have them at less than 1m. I use my desk speakers at about 0.6m, where larger speakers might need more room to integrate or might just not fit from that close. I'd pretty much never hit the SPLs tested here other than some peaks.
I don’t live near one and while most sounded good enough personally I am more curious on how the measurements goes, it’s like knowing a Porsche is driving quicker than a Subaru is one thing, having test data of how well it accelerates and corner G force is interestingIf you live near a Guitar Center you can demo the aforementioned speakers. The Genelecs outperform the budget lines of all the brands which you mentioned and in my opinion anything south of $4000 a pair aside from other Genelecs and maybe the KH 310 which I haven't heard.
Also, I can imagine its "higher" attractiveness for female users, isnt't this cute?
Don't act so narrow, wasn't meant that way at all. It is "cute" to me and I suppose many males as well. Is it "sexist" that women tend to prefer different designs and solutions than men?Please don't make casually sexist comments like this. It's not based in fact, it's not inclusive and it doesn't add anything to the conversation.
True but who is mixing on these? Maybe you tubers or something, no way albums are mixed on these. In any case, why not just have a switch to turn the compressor on and off?
I mean this is $700 for very small speakers, I think such a feature is more than warranted.
Great review, thanks again! A note about using only small Genelecs in a desktop setup -> larger ones work as well In my opinion 8x3x series works the best also size wise. 8x4x begins to be too big for my taste at least. Here's my setup with 7350 sub on the floor.
These rather new Genelc desktop stands are the best imo begins one can adjust the tilt and they are VERY robust.
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I'm really sorry but this is actually "on topic" :
Don't act so narrow, wasn't meant that way at all. It is "cute" to me and I suppose many males as well. Is it "sexist" that women tend to prefer different designs and solutions than men?
Some of them (the more successful ones) even use the bigger boys:but who is mixing on these? Maybe you tubers or something,
WAF is about women having better taste / being more reasonable than men.If this would be sexist, we should never talk about WAF here.
Maybe Genelec should think about pink in there color palette?
WAF is about women having better taste / being more reasonable than men.
Here it was like blue for boys / pink for girls kind of babble.
WAF is about women having better taste / being more reasonable than men.
Here it was like blue for boys / pink for girls kind of babble.
Some of them (the more successful ones) even use the bigger boys:
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He even has an RME Babyface interface.