The digital monitor
is as much of a misnomer as the digital microphone, but what
are the real advantages and where could it lead?
We take it seriously. If you look at our designs
over the two and a half decades there’s dearly a systematic
way of improving different sound quality parameters in every
model generation. Our fist product, the S30 in 1978, already
had the on-axis frequency response uniformity of today’s
accepted standards, which was quite exceptional for its time.
Then we moved further on to minimize a monitor’s secondary
sound source generation and at the same time to improve its
directional characteristics closer towards a constant directivity
system in the legendary 1022A model (1983) where for the first
time our pioneered wave guided mid-and high-frequency systems
were integrated into the cabinet mold. Then came the time to
maximize the undistorted maximum SPL capacity of a direct radiator
large soffit-mounted monitor and our 1035A in 1988 really set
the mark about 10dB higher than was achievable with conventional
soft dome designs. This technology is still valid today.
In the 1990s we concentrated on redefining close-field monitoring,
applying all we had learned and putting it into the smalles
possible package. It was the 1031A that had a flat on-axis response
down to 47Hz., a waveguided directivity optimization for the
HF and was sufficiently loud for rock and roll monitoring.
Now with our new 8000-series monitors we continued this development
process by paying a lot of attention to improving all sound
quality parameters at the same time to make the progress more
audible. |
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Ari Varla - A SELF –
DECLARED AUDIO hobbyist
What’s special about Genelec’s
approach to monitor manufacture?
Are we restricted in monitor design by
the industry’s conservatism?
Cabinet, crossover, driver or amplifier-
where are the limitations?
Are end-user expectations of low-end
unrealistic for the small sizes of cabinet that most are actually
listening on?
The digital monitor is as much of a misnomer as the digital
microphone, but what are the real advantages and where could
it lead?
In an ideal world, should monitors that
are used in a multichannel configuration be similar to from
those used for stereo? |
