For 30 years, Finland’s Genelec Speakers have set the benchmark standard for accurate sound reproduction in recording studios and broadcast facilities around the world. In every Genelec system, each ‘driver’ has its own power amplifier fed by a precision crossover. The fundamental design criteria, is to create a sound realism, impact and dynamics that will enjoy in your music room or home cinema, just as the audio engineers intended it.

The Genelec 8260A 3-way DSP system is a mechanical, acoustical and signal processing design that is intimately linked together. This electro-acoustic system, results in a loudspeaker capable of outstanding performance in very different and challenging acoustic environments. You can find Genelic in film studios of 20th Century Fox , Sony Pictures, to recoding studios of Capital Records and German audiophile label, Stockfish Records.

Steven Spurrier from Studio Connections, will cover an introduction to Genelec and a discussion on integrating loudspeakers into rooms and basic acoustic theory. He has been involved in the Hi-Fi industry since 1983, initially running Audio Trends’ High End room then moving on to Symphonia Hi-Fi in Hawthorn and his last years in retail at Encel Stereo. In 2003 he was introduced to Studio Connections Australia, where he has been ever since as the Genelec Product Specialist.

The equipment for the night will be a MacBook Pro and a Audio Alchemy DDS Pro transport as sources, these will feed into a Drawmer M-Clock Plus which will allow input switching. Steven will be using Stockfish recordings for the first half of nights demonstration , and after the coffee break we will have the opportunity to play our own Stockfish CD’s. This will be a very interesting night for the club to hear the actual studio monitors that are used for mixing Stockfish Recordings.

So bring along your favourite or reference track from Stockfish and hear an audio benchmark.

Nick Karayanis
Program Co-ordinator