Studio Connections Australia presents Genelec 8260A

[ArthurDent]

Melbourne Audio Club monthly meeting: Wednesday 15th May, 8PM

Studio Connections Australia presents Genelec 8260A

8pm Wednesday 15th May, visitors welcome.
Willis Room, City of Whitehorse Offices
Maroondah Highway (Whitehorse Road), Nunawading
Melway Map 48 Ref G9
Contact: 9437 1249

For 30 years, Finland’s Genelec Speakers have set the benchmark standard for accurate sound reproduction in recording studios and broadcast facilities around the world. In every Genelec system, each ‘driver’ has its own power amplifier fed by a precision crossover. The fundamental design criteria, is to create a sound realism, impact and dynamics that will enjoy in your music room or home cinema, just as the audio engineers intended it.
 
The Genelec 8260a 3-way DSP system is a mechanical, acoustical and signal processing design that is intimately linked together. This electro-acoustic system, results in a loudspeaker capable of outstanding performance in very different and challenging acoustic environments. You can find Genelic in film studios of 20th Century Fox , Sony Pictures, to recoding studios of Capital Records and German audiophile label, Stockfish Records.
 
Steven Spurrier from Studio Connections, will cover an introduction to Genelec and a discussion on integrating loudspeakers into rooms and basic acoustic theory. He has been involved in the Hi-Fi industry since 1983, initially running Audio Trends’ High End room then moving on to Symphonia Hi-Fi in Hawthorn and his last years in retail at Encel Stereo. In 2003 he was introduced to Studio Connections Australia, where he has been ever since as the Genelec Product Specialist.
 
The equipment for the night will be a MacBook Pro and a Audio Alchemy DDS Pro transport as sources, these will feed into a Drawmer M-Clock Plus which will allow input switching. Steven will be using Stockfish recordings for the first half of nights demonstration , and after the coffee break we will have the opportunity to play our own Stockfish CD’s. This will be a very interesting night for the club to hear the actual studio monitors that are used for mixing Stockfish Recordings.
 
So bring along your favourite or reference track from Stockfish and hear an audio benchmark.

 

Nick Karayanis
Program Co-ordinator
 
Ken Tripp
Wise and Wonderful Webmaster
Melbourne Audio Club, Inc.
 

http://www.melbourneaudioclub.org.au

[Guest Misterioso]

Thanks, Ken.

 

Will try to make it at least for an hour or so. Cannot promise yet because I just became the proud father of a little boy two days ago. Will see how it goes next week. But these speakers are very interesting for me. I am already using studio monitors in my setup anyway. Along with the Neumann KH 310, the Genelec 8260A are on my short list in case I get a larger listening room. The built-in DSP and semi-coaxial design makes them very interesting. 

 

One question, however: My ears are not very good in enduring very high volumes. Do you plan to listen very loud?

 

typo corrected

Edited May 9, 2013 by Misterioso

[ArthurDent]

I do hope you can come along and join us but with the recent addition to the family (and congratulations BTW) you may have a battle getting out of the house.

 

As for too loud, rarely if ever happens and whilst it's always up to the presenters to decide on the program and how it's delivered they do tend to respond well to feedback from the assembled masses.

[Guest Peter the Greek]

I'd love to hear these in a decent room.....I'm told Steven does it best (in Australia at any rate)

 

....the stockists in Sydney are pro audio shops.....no great listening rooms up here (at least there wasn't last time I was buying)

[rick575757]

Interesting!

And for the uninitiated, Stockfish are audiophile recordings? What genres?

Steven,

Does this speaker or any/ many of the other Genelecs use any PHL drivers?

Will you be saying anything about the types of amps they use?

Cheers

[Guest Misterioso]

Rick, maybe you have heard of Sara K's Stockfish recordings. Looks like I will be there on Wednesday.

Edited May 13, 2013 by Misterioso

[Peter Allen]

What matters most?

YNNV

Let's see what Genelec do well (and not World's Best?)

 

Timbral accuracy? (LS3-5a)

Coherency (Maggies, Stax)

Horizontal dispersion? (the Canadian researchers, Floyd Toole et al)

Dynamic range? (Linn Isobarik)

Lowest bass (subbies)

Solid image? (Wilsons)

Depth of image? (Celestion aerolam)

Power Handling? (Tannoys)

 

Martin Collums in HiFi Critic recently said: " ...[get your own copy]"

 

I'll be there OK.

-Peter the ever-searching, never finding

[Ian McP]

Well the Finns gave us Leningrad Cowboys

www.leningradcowboys.fi

new album out: Buena Vodka Social Club

If you've not seen Leningrad Cowboys Go America or Total Balalaiki Show do so!

 

Let's see what Genelec they can deliver in loudspeakers

 

and It's Stockfisch Records

www.stockfisch-records.de/stckff/sf_stockfisch_e.html

[ArthurDent]

Those pesky Germans and their strange way of spelling fish

[rick575757]

Boy o boy, what a classic jumble of Trumped Up narrow knowledge audiophile derived hog

YNNV

Etiquette is to define your unusual acronyms. Or am I uninformed?

Let's see what Genelec do well (and not World's Best?)

Was there any claim They Would Be World's Best?

 

Timbral accuracy? (LS3-5a)

Do you really think they're World's Best for TA? Maybe for the price; they have big limitations so they ought to be trumps at some things. I think only TAS puts them on the podium. They do love to swoon at some products.

I don't think (name dropping echo) Martin Colloms does . .

Coherency (Maggies, Stax)

Great detail, but WB C?

Horizontal dispersion? (the Canadian researchers, Floyd Toole et al)

You've done a couple of name drops, but no product references, so your point is?

Dynamic range? (Linn Isobarik)

Now that's a real good one. You think they do isobaric for better dynamic range?? Do you know what isobaric is?

Lowest bass (subbies)

Yes, "subbies" play low bass. But er, what have subs got to do with these Genelecs??

Solid image? (Wilsons)

Please explain what lacks a "solid" image. Speakers with wobbly image?

Depth of image? (Celestion aerolam)

I'm not a well read scientist. How could cabinet material be a significant factor in WB image depth???

Power Handling? (Tannoys)

Since when has the ability to take megawatts been any indicator of quality?? If it was, do you really think Tannoys are WB?

 

Martin Collums in HiFi Critic recently said: " ...[get your own copy]"

Your own copy of what?

 

I'll be there OK.

-Peter the ever-searching, never finding

If you haven't found it yet, maybe you're up the wrong tree ..

You're clearly aspirational of the Worlds Best, and a long term searcher and reader, but no mention of the Orion. What hope do you have? Perhaps a different mix of pills?

Cheers

[rick575757]

My arranged transport was diverted elsewhere. How were they?

Cheers

[Guest Misterioso]

They were very good (but my current monitors are surprisingly close). The listening session still continues but I had to leave early. Thanks, Ken, for the advertisement here on SNA.

[ArthurDent]

My arranged transport was diverted elsewhere. How were they? Cheers

[ArthurDent]

My arranged transport was diverted elsewhere. How were they? Cheers

 

They were rather good but then I am a fan of active DSP speakers. The Genelec guide to speaker placement was another matter.

[ArthurDent]

They were very good (but my current monitors are surprisingly close). The listening session still continues but I had to leave early. Thanks, Ken, for the advertisement here on SNA.

 

Thank you for coming along and I was going to introduce myself at the break but I think you'd left by then.

[Guest Misterioso]

Yes, sorry, I left in the break. As you guessed correctly, it's not really the right time for me to spend the evenings outside home...

 

I wish the presenter had spent more time on comparing the sound without and with activated room correction. He switched a few times at the beginning but this was way to fast for my brain to adapt. Apart from that, the evening was quite expensive for me: I just ordered one of the Allan Taylor Stockfisch CDs for an outrageous price :-)

Edited May 16, 2013 by Misterioso