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In Reply to: RE: Genelec posted by Bill Way on September 23, 2015 at 19:36:24
...and they don't play loud (at all)
According to the manual:
"The amplifiers are capable of driving the system to peak acoustic levels of 122 and 125 db SPL (per pair)"
My listening levels - even peaks - don't begin to approach rock concert levels. The few times in recent past where I've been to such (business conference events), I'm wearing earplugs!
I value my hearing more highly.
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Regardless of what any marketing copy says, the pair Bob has are quite limited. Like almost all experienced engineers, he is scrupulous at keeping the average SPL around 85 dB, with peaks of course running much louder. He has never had them run out of gas, but he is listening in an extremely quiet room at a distance of about three feet. (They're on the meter bridge of his console.)
I'm not surprised at the 125 dB claim; it's probably true. An SPL of 125 dB, measured an inch in front of the driver, becomes, I'd guess, 105 dB at arm's reach. (Try it - put you ear next to your speaker drivers. It gets surprisingly loud when you get in that close.)
Or it could be that Bob's S-30s are maybe from an early production run that had lower output. There are lots of possibilities.
WW
"A man need merely light the filaments of his receiving set and the world's greatest artists will perform for him." Alfred N. Goldsmith, RCA, 1922
Try it - put you ear next to your speaker drivers. It gets surprisingly loud when you get in that close.
Actually, it doesn't with my line sources. Their output doesn't vary as much with distance like point sources.
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