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You have to really dig the Genelec sound as such. Once you get to know them though, they work very well.
They're a a very "fast" speaker. Very direct and unflattering. They never sound lazy or tubby. The imaging is razor sharp, even more so with the GLM/AutoCal system I have. I can move the pan in PT and hear the difference even when adjusting by very small increments. Like if you move the pan maybe 3 to the left or right, you can hear it quite obviously.
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The Genelecs also seem to have more sub bass, when I heard them in the same room. However my set of Focals took a while to break in and now the sub bass is good, more than enough for my tastes. I have no idea how broken in the demo pair were.
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I definitely think there's merit in having headroom. I think that is more his point (and that like for like quality could be cheaper with passives+amp) than the passives are better speakers.
If you look at the Yamaha HS7s vs the Genelec 8040s, both are 6.5" woofers. HS7s are 65 watt woofers and 35 watt tweeters, the 8040s are 90 watt woofer and 90 watt tweeter.
More power is going to give more headroom for transients. For studio you want clean power so that you're not distorting.
Especially since most studio monitors are designed to be neutral and flat.
It's really a bit of a crap shoot, but speaker manufacturers at least have a target to aim for in their designs. Most go for the same ideals, although none really sound the same, and I think that's telling when you audition them side by side.
But even so, I think the difference between speakers is much less than the difference in rooms.
If that makes any sense anyway...
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All good, and all better than anything I've mixed through before. The 8040s were clear and deep, really punchy low end that belied their size. The soundstage had depth, I'd probably say that although they're not "scooped" per se, I did think the midrange felt a bit softer and more distant than the focals, and they were doing something nice to the treble which I didn't quite trust. The CMS 65s were more open in the midrange, low end extension didn't seem as deep or as punchy as the 8040s but strangely from listening to tracks, both my own and commercial releases on CD, I felt like I could hear exactly what was going on down below all the same. I think I could really judge balances on these speakers. That open midrange was great too, and I found that with the 8040s I was doing this thing where I was listening to different frequency ranges and judging them. With the '65s, I wasn't thinking like that. I was just hearing music - The smack of the singer's lips before the first line, the resonance coming off the low tom, the way the bass and kick were sitting...
Basically, I think it's the CMS 65s for me. I'm almost afraid to go to a place that stocks the Solo 6s in case they ruin me. The thing I liked most about them is that not only did Jeff Buckly and Alice in Chains sound really great through them, but when I listened to one of my own mixes I could hear the things I'd done wrong!
In a comparison between CMS and Alpha 65, the alphas sounded flatter, more band passed and didn't have that sense that I could hear into the mix - though they definitely had a "family sound". The Adams impressed me a lot more than I thought they would - Nice low end and low mids. I'd heard reports that the treble was wierd, and I do think they'd be a bit mellow up their for me to mix on, but I can totally hear how you could get used to their sound.
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