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Tailored precisely to your room
Interacting with our Genelec Loudspeaker Manager (GLM) software, the 8381A monitor system intelligently adapts its response to the monitoring room in the optimal way. This offers great flexibility to tackle even the most challenging environments – delivering precise presentation, including low frequency reproduction that integrates perfectly with the complete sound content.
The 8381A has been engineered to deliver the complete audible content, with a response extending to frequencies beyond the standard audible range – and fully aligned in the time domain – it delivers precise understanding of all the minute details in recorded waveforms. With its high SPL capacity, the 8381A is able to make even very low-level details audible, making it an uncompromising tool for monitoring.
Imaging you can trust
Quickly arrive at the right mixing and mastering decisions through uncompromising imaging detail. The point source operating principle of the 8381A offers the unique advantage of maintaining precise sound colour and imaging at all listening distances, enabling exceptional freedom of placement, and removing the vertical sound colour change typical of larger monitors.
The carefully designed Directivity Control Waveguide ensures clean off-axis sound colour, reducing the impact of the reverberant sound in the monitoring room on mixing decisions, while improving the accuracy and reliability of monitoring work in all rooms.
Standing on the floor, the 8381 locates the soundstage at the natural listening height, while supporting traditional high main monitor positions with the included incliner system. This enables the acoustic axis to be optimally configured towards the listening position for all installation heights.
A liberating new solution
The innovations of the 8381A push the limits of free-standing monitoring solutions, creating a powerhouse that deeply envelops the listener in flawless, true-to-life sound images. The monitor excels at revealing the finest details of audio by combining immense, controlled power with pinpoint imaging precision, even in challenging monitoring spaces.
The point source design principle combined with optimised directivity control maintains the frequency balance in off-axis positions, supporting correct understanding of the sound colour when moving, standing or sitting in the monitoring room.
Genelec quality and support
Crafted with expert guidance from celebrated Industrial Designer Harri Koskinen, the 8381A is completely designed and built in Iisalmi, Finland. Drawing on more than four decades of company experience, Genelec's passionate engineering team meticulously designed and optimised every component of the 8381A. In doing so, we've created a monitoring loudspeaker that's ideal for the audio world's most demanding applications – built to perform with effortless power and zero sonic compromise.
The 8381A powers a lifetime of creativity, so it comes included with access to our unique Genelec SonicAdvisor™ services. So, if you require any support on your monitoring journey with the 8381A – from initial configuration to on-site consultation – we're ready to help.
Package contains:
- The 8381A is shipped in a plywood-covered pallet containing the top and bottom enclosures (both needed for one complete unit), two individually calibrated RAM-81 amplifier units and an accessory kit, including incliner wedges to optimise the vertical acoustic axis.
- Quick Setup Guide with link to product website and documents, including the Operating Manual.
- GLM Kit and GLM software access.
- 8381A specific SonicAdvisor™ services.
Warranty:
- 2 years unregistered, and 10 years (in total) for registered users
System Specifications
Frequency Response
(± 1.5 dB)
Low cutoff -6dB
20 Hz
High cutoff -6dB
35 kHz
SPL
Peak SPL
≥129 dB
Maximum output per pair.
Short term max SPL
≥126 dB
Mean SPL in range 100 Hz - 3 kHz,
THD < 10 % f < 200 Hz, THD < 3 % f > 200 Hz
Short term sine wave, at 1 m, on axis, in half-space.
Long term max SPL
≥121 dB
Maximum long term RMS acoustic output, IEC-weighted noise (limited by protection circuit) at 1 m, half-space.
Weight
Weight
200 kg (440.9 lb)
Dimensions
Height
1458 mm (57 13/32 in)
Width
500 mm (19 11/16 in)
Depth
694 mm (27 5/16 in)
Enclosure 1 dimensions: 880 x 694 x 500 mm Enclosure 2 dimensions: 570 x 694 x 500 mm Packing dimensions: 1076 x 1200 x 1000 mm
Enclosure
Enclosure material
MDF
Drivers
Bass
Driver type
Cone
Double Low Woofers
Count
2
Diameter
381 mm (15 in)
Bass
Driver type
Cone
Front Woofer
Diameter
381 mm (15 in)
Midrange
Driver type
Dome
Quad Midrange System
Count
4
Diameter
127 mm (5 in)
Coaxial Midrange
Driver type
Cone
Coaxial Midrange
Diameter
127 mm (5 in)
Coaxial Tweeter
Driver type
Dome
Compression tweeter voice coil 25 mm (1 in), throat 13 mm (0.5 in)
Diameter
25 mm (31/32 in)
Directivity
Vertical directivity
Horizontal directivity
Harmonic distortion
Amplifier Section
Amplifiers
8381A Amplifier
2 X Class D amplifiers.
Total amplifier power is 5926 W.
19 in rack mount, 3U high.
Each amplifier is uniquely calibrated to a cabinet at Genelec factory in Iisalmi.
Weight
11 kg (24.3 lb)
Mains voltage
100-240 VAC 50/60Hz
Power consumption
ISS Active
≤1.2 W
Idle
≤140 W
Full output
2200 W
Signal processing section
Connectors
2 x Input
Analog signal input connector XLR female, balanced 10 kOhm.
2 x Output
XLR output connectors, 10 kOhm.
2 x Input
Digital signal input connector XLR female 110 Ohm.
2 x Output
Digital signal output / Thru connector XLR male 110 Ohm.
4 x Control
Four CAT5 (RJ45) GLM Network connectors for computer control using the Genelec Loudspeaker Manager (GLM) software.
Crossover
Lower Woofer/Front Woofer
50-100 Hz (variable)
Front Woofer/Quad Midrange System
150-250 Hz (variable)
Quad Midrange System/Coaxial Midrange
500 Hz
Coaxial Midrange/Tweeter
1800 Hz
