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For 2.0, I'm torn between Salon2 and F328Be. It looks ever so slightly narrower than the 8351b to my eyes(and MS paint), and the fidelity isn't as good, but it makes up for it with max output and extension.Īre you stuck on 2.0? If not, based on your previous preferences, I'd be leaning F328Be + subs.
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The KH420 is (imo) an amazing value(arguably the best) for true full range 2.0 sound, but based on your preferences for wide dispersion, I'd worry about the narrower dispersion. W371A fixes the max output problem, and does the LF directivity even better than the 8C, but at $30,000 is overpriced an almost 3x the cost.
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D&D 8C seems (imo) a bit better at equal volumes than KH420, but it sacrifices max output for LF directivity control. On one hand, for true full range sound at ~4m, I might lean towards KH420 or D&D 8C. Personally, I would have to have subs to complement the F328Be(similar to the 8351b)
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The F328Be is certainly much smoother(measurement wise). I'd really love to see a dispersion width comparison between the Salon2 and the F328Be. My problem with the F328Be(without subs) is the extension (-3dB 35Hz). My guess is that wider dispersion is to blame for that. You also seemed to enjoy the F328Be over the Salon2, and the Salon2 over the 8351b. I'm all for multiple systems and trying something new. If it’s not a big problem, I could totally see a surround system consisting of Genelec coaxial to be quite the ideal ultimate no-compromises setup I’ll have to see in practice though how much of a problem this is, if any. It becomes impossible to ignore that you’re sitting a few feet away from a speaker. In contrast, with the 4.1 setup, the location of the rear speakers become like blinding suns of excessively loud noise, standing out versus blending in. That said, the back of the room didn’t sound ideal even when playing stereo tracks on the Salon2’s, but it still sounded quite good and the sound is continuously similar as you transition between e.g. As I feared, even when the upmixing sounds really good, it does for the center area of the room, but not so much for the back. It’s too early to say, as I’m mostly distracted by all the Dolby Atmos music available on Apple Music right nowīut from initial impressions, I do actually think a multichannel Genelec setup can match and probably exceed the enjoyment of wide pattern speakers like the Salon2’s when playing even stereo content, with the right upmixing. That said, I actually am quite impressed by how good it sounds with just the simple “Multichannel Stereo” upmixing. All the subtle 3D info in the soundstage gets completely destroyed in any of these modes aside from pure “Stereo”, and “Multichannel Stereo”. What’s interesting is how terrible any of the other upmixing modes are. I’d like to just turn down the volume of the rears in this mode ideally, but I can’t do that aside from adjusting the level calibrations which would degrade the results when playing actual Dolby Audio etc. Sometimes too much so, since the “Multichannel Stereo” mode seems to play the surrounds just as loudly as the fronts (I assume it’s the exact same signal). In fact it’s quite a bit more enveloping, where you feel like the music is completely surrounding you. It’s not quite the same as the soundstage of the Salon2’s or course, but definitely very similar in all the good ways I’ve been wanting. The Denon AVR I use has a few upmixing modes, but interestingly all of them sound pretty bad except two modes: Pure stereo (obviously, ie nothing is played on the surrounds at all), and “Multichannel Stereo” which seems to play the exact same signal on the surrounds as on the fronts. Now when trying stereo upmixing to multichannel is where it gets interesting. In some they decided to place only the vocals behind and only the instruments in front, which was really weird and IMO not really desirable.
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However other multichannel remixes are pretty bad.
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Using my Denon AVR and Apple TV to stream music, both stereo and Dolby Atmos.įirst of all, when playing actual multichannel music, I’m definitely impressed and I don’t know if I can really go back to only stereo now It was fun just browsing through some of the example songs on some of the default Spatial Audio playlists, for example: Click to expand.I’ve finally set up a basic (4.1) multichannel setup using my 8351B’s in the front and 8330A as the surrounds.