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Re: Thoughts/opinions on pro studio monitors for "home" use

Posted by KlausR. (A) on April 15, 2007 at 03:05:27

In Reply to: Re: Thoughts/opinions on pro studio monitors for "home" use posted by tlyyra on April 14, 2007 at 03:49:00:

Hi TL,

FYI I have posted a review of the O500C here

Since then we added a new living room to our house with optimized room dimensions, acoustic treatment and placement of speakers in the best possible location.

You can throw any kind of music at the O500C and they will play it at any level without any difficulty whatsoever. For me they are still the best speakers available at the moment. They are very neutral and uncolored and I never felt the need to use the in-built EQ, so for me they are perfect as they come out of the box. I still use the room-EQ though because they are close to the floor.

The O500C and both Genelecs provide better off-axis response (and higher directivity) that what you usually find in consumer speakers, which in turn means that they interact less with the listening room. On-axis response is flat ± 1.5 dB and ± 2.5 dB, respectively. Distortion is low, obviously higher for the Genelecs. Here the new 8020 are better, the older 1029 tend to produce distortion when pushed hard.

Both Genelecs on their own, i.e. without subwoofer, are not quite sufficient for stuff like classical orchestral music or hard rock. At the moment I have the 8020 in the living, next to the O500C, meaning great base and listening distance. They perform very well, intelligibility is very good, distortion is no problem eben when pushed hard, but one realizes that they are not designed for mid/farfield applications. I suppose that the addition of the subwoofer will make things a lot better. Don't get me wrong, they play well, given their size, with all types of music, but when you have the occasion to compare them to speakers like the O500C you see what's missing: bass is a bit boomy, the drivers are less well controlled (longer decay), they don't have the same slam.

I'm afraid that for your prefrered music small monitors won't do it, you'd have to get at least speakers of the Klein+Hummel O300 size, possibly combined with a sub or, if budget allows, the O500C right away.

Klaus

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