Genelec 8010 Setup Manual

2, 2 Table of contents Genelec Key Technologies 3 What is a monitor? 4 What is a reference monitor? 4 Selecting the correct monitors 4 Identifying your listening area 5 Monitor and listening location placement in a room 8 Back wall cancellation 9 Calibration 13 Acoustic treatment…

17, Genelec 8010 17 Monitor setup guide Reection-free zone around the listening area First order reections can have high level while subsequent reections become smaller. Control room design minimizes the rst order reection level reaching the listening area. Reections arrivi…

9, 9 Monitor setup guide these frequencies appear to be missing. Moving the listening location can solve the problem. Typically the listening location is moved forward or backward. The most accurate stereo imaging can be achieved when the reections are similar for the left and the right mon…

23, 23 Monitor setup guide Sound radiation At low frequencies, typically below 200 Hz, monitors radiate omnidirectionally. This means that the same sound pressure is created in any direction around the monitor. At higher frequencies, the radiation becomes directional: midrange frequencies radiate…

4, 4 What is a monitor? A monitor, by denition, observes, checks, controls, warns or keeps continuous record of something. An audio monitor is more than a good-sounding loudspeaker. It is a device used in the process of recording, mixing or broadcasting audio in any environment wh…

10, 10 Placement of monitors and subwoofer At low frequencies, it is crucial that the most fundamental room modes are equally excited. Using a single subwoofer, a placement along the front wall, slightly o-centre from the room middle axis could be recommended. Using two or four subwo…