Genelec expands The Ones family and incorporates Adaptive Woofer technology

The new 8351B and 8361A three-way coaxial monitors, along with the complementary W371A Adaptive Woofer System, represent The Ones family's ability to provide unique neutral, coloration-free reference monitoring for applications ranging from ultra-close monitoring to mastering.

Genelec has expanded the series The Ones of Definitive Point Source Monitors to bring seamless precision listening to a much wider range of rooms in sizes, listening distances and sound pressure level requirements.

The announcement of the new 8351B and 8361A three-way coaxial monitors, together with the complementary W371A Adaptive Woofer System They represent The Ones family's ability to provide unique neutral, coloration-free reference monitoring for applications ranging from ultra-close monitoring to mastering.

The Ones Series was launched in 2014 with the introduction of the 8351A, which, with extraordinary imaging, extended frequency response, controlled directivity and fatigue-free listening, enabled professionals to work faster and make more consistent and informed decisions when recording and mixing. In 2017, the 8351A was joined by the 8331A and 8341A, creating a trio of compact nearfield monitors that wowed users around the world with their exceptional performance, garnering multiple audio industry awards along the way. Without coloring either direct or reflected sound, The Ones quickly gained a well-deserved reputation for making a good room sound incredible.

Today, the new 8361A three-way coaxial monitor takes the concept of Point source, offering more advanced acoustic performance than any other studio monitor currently available, with extremely high dynamic range, unmatched imaging and directivity, and a short-term SPL of 118 dB with even higher peak levels. Now the largest coaxial monitor in The Ones family, the 8361A, will provide an exquisite monitoring experience at any listening distance up to 5 meters, making it perfect for small to medium room sizes.

The 8361A features two Acoustically Concealed Woofers (ACW) newly designed, which generate a high SPL output, with extremely low distortion, and a new coaxial MDC mid and high driver that provides smooth directivity, low distortion, high SPL and a high frequency response that reaches 40 kHz. Like all models in The Ones line, Minimum Diffraction Enclosure (MDE) eliminates coloration, acting as the entire front part of the loudspeaker as a Directivity Control Waveguide (DCW), providing a wide listening point without coloration. Efficient Class D amplification, designed and manufactured by Genelec, is complemented by advanced DSP processing including delays, equalization and twenty filters for room compensation.

The recently updated 8351B shares many of the technologies of its other The Ones siblings and benefits from the many advances in electronic, mechanical and acoustic design that Genelec has continued to lead since its inception. Inspired by the electronic design of the 8341A and the driver technology of the 8361A, the revised 8351B has managed to improve on the exemplary performance of its predecessor by offering higher SPL, additional compensation filters and improved high frequency response.

A unique system

The Adaptive Woofer system is a truly unique concept, specifically designed to integrate seamlessly with the 8341, 8351 and 8361 monitors, and in conjunction with these models, create a series of full-range monitoring solutions with an unbeatable level of control over the directivity and acoustic effects of the room, combined with unparalleled neutrality. For the first time, studios can now experience all the benefits of primary monitoring systems, but with the freedom to place this independent system in optimal positions within the control room; even allowing the change between nearfield and main monitors without changing the sound image.

Housed in a 1.1 meter tall frame and incorporating two high-performance woofers, one front-facing and one rear-facing, the W371A introduces a range of innovative ways to carefully tailor system performance around the critical four lower octaves to the room. As a result, the W371A offers vastly superior performance compared to conventional tower speakers or stand-up subwoofers, delivering a flatter, smoother in-room frequency response with more coherent low-frequency imaging, without compromising anything.

By increasing the two woofers of any The Ones coaxial model, with the complementary W371A, you reach four total woofers per channel, and these are combined using advanced acoustic measures to reduce destructive cancellation and the effect of standing waves, thanks to a set of tools that include cutoff frequencies, polar response and directivity. As a result, the W371A goes further than any other monitoring system in eliminating harmful influences on low-frequency reproduction in the listening room, something universally recognized as a fundamental issue in all modern studios.

As part of Genelec's SAM (Smart Active Monitoring) family, all models in The Ones range integrate seamlessly with GLM software, which allows complete Genelec smart monitoring systems to be configured, calibrated and controlled. Based on the experience of thousands of studios around the world, GLM is able to minimize the influence of the room on listening, allowing the user to produce mixes that will translate perfectly to other systems, whether in mono, stereo or multichannel format.

Speaking about the launch, Genelec CEO, Siamäk Naghian, explains that "no other family of studio monitors can offer this level of coherence, control, neutrality and easy adaptability to any acoustic environment. From the ultra-nearfield precision of the 8331A to the full-range systems formed with the 8361A and W371A, our Point Source technology is now fully expandable, expanding its appeal even further and maintaining The Ones series' position as a benchmark for reference monitoring. accurate.”