Genelec 8381AM SAM Adaptive Point Source Main Monitor

Introducing the new flagship floor-standing monitor from Genelec

Genelec 8381A Adaptive Point Source Main Monitor, offering true-to-life sound level and dynamics and an ultra-wide full-range response.

As part of its 45th anniversary year, Genelec has unveiled the 8381A Smart Active Monitoring system, a flagship floor-standing Adaptive Point Source™ design that fuses exceptional precision and envelopment with unrivalled LF control, huge headroom and high-resolution imaging.

Designed for high end music recording, mastering and audiophile listening, the 8381A creates a free-standing full range monitoring solution that can intelligently adapt to any acoustic environment. For audio professionals, the 8381A produces accurate full-band mixes that translate consistently to other rooms and playback systems, while audiophiles will experience every detail and nuance of a musical performance, just as the creators intended it to be heard.

8381A empowers engineers and creators to perceive every sonic detail, offering true-to-life sound level and dynamics – with the full flexibility of free-standing monitor placement and advanced room adaption.

Key Technologies:

• Point Source Continued Directivity (PCD) Technology
• Minimum Diffraction Coaxial (MDC™) Driver Technology
• Quad Midrange System (QMS)
• Double Low-Woofer (DLW) System
• Smart Active Monitoring (SAM™) and GLM™ calibration technology
• Reflex Port Design
• Intelligent Signal Sensing (ISS™) Technology
• Directivity Control Waveguide (DCW™) Technology
• Optimised Amplifiers
• Protection Circuitry
• Active Crossovers

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.

Technical Specifications Summary:

• SPL: 126 dB
• Amplifier Power
• Total amplifier power 5926 W (Class D)
• Frequency Response: 20 Hz - 35 kHz ("-6 dB")
• Accuracy of Frequency Response: ± 1.5 dB
• Driver Dimensions
• 2 x ⌀ 381 mm Bass + ⌀ 381 mm Bass + 4 x ⌀ 127 mm Midrange + ⌀ 127 mm Coaxial Midrange + ⌀ 25 mm Coaxial Tweeter (view in inches)
• Dimensions: H 1458 x W 500 x D 694 mm, (view in inches)
• Weight: 235 kg / 518.1 lb
• Connections
  
  • 2 x XLR Analog Input
  • 2 x XLR Analog Output
  • 2 x XLR AES/EBU Input
  • 2 x XLR AES/EBU Output
  • 4 x RJ45 Control

Warranty:
2 years unregistered, and 10 years (in total) for registered users