{"id":282412,"date":"2021-06-24T04:01:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T01:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/genelecs-8341a-is-a-nearly-perfect-speaker-for-6k\/"},"modified":"2021-06-24T04:01:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T01:01:53","slug":"genelecs-8341a-is-a-nearly-perfect-speaker-for-6k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/genelecs-8341a-is-a-nearly-perfect-speaker-for-6k\/","title":{"rendered":"#Genelec’s 8341A is a nearly perfect speaker (for $6K)"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Genelec’s 8341A is a nearly perfect speaker (for $6K)<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

Marketing is all about hyperbole and superlatives, but marketing in the audio<\/em> world is distinctly egregious. I\u2019m particularly irked when speakers claim to let you hear music \u201cas the artist intended\u201d without any substance to back that up.<\/p>\n

Genelec<\/a>, a Finnish audio company, makes similar claims on its website, but it gets a pass from me. Not only does the company provide extensive measurements for each of its speakers online \u2014 each of which demonstrates a neutral response \u2014 but its speakers are prominent in the\u00a0recording industry. Chances are you\u2019ve probably heard at least some<\/em> music made with Genelec speakers.<\/p>\n

The subject of today\u2019s review is the Genelec 8341A<\/a>, part of the company\u2019s state-of-the-art \u2018The Ones<\/a>\u2018 series<\/a>. The speakers are so named because they aim to provide a truly \u2018point-source\u2019 sound, such that all frequencies emanate from the same point in space. These speakers use a unique coaxial driver \u2014 the tweeter is embedded in the mid-woofer \u2014 flanked by two unique low-end woofers in order to provide an even sound front that very few speakers can claim. This particular model is about the size of a 6.5-inch bookshelf speaker, the second smallest out of four speakers in the series.<\/p>\n

Long story short: the Genelec 8341A are some of the best speakers I\u2019ve had the pleasure of listening to. They\u2019re great at just about everything and do just about nothing wrong. While no speaker will ever be the best for every single track, the 8341A has both the subjective and objective performance to justify its eye-watering, roughly $6,000 price tag (not out of the norm for its category). It\u2019s as close to textbook \u2018perfect\u2019 as any speaker I\u2019ve measured. The speakers may be marketed at the pro industry, but any audiophile with a fat enough wallet should have these on their radar.<\/p>\n

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Credit: Genelec<\/figcaption>
<\/a>These speakers sound virtually identical in their horizontal orientation.<\/figcaption>