GENELEC 8320A
Compact enough to fit into the tightest of spaces - yet intelligent enough to adapt to your recording environment - the 8320A is your entry point into the world of Smart Active Monitoring.
Key Technologies
- Smart Active Monitor (SAM™) Systems
- Active Crossovers
- Directivity Control Waveguide (DCW™) Technology
- Intelligent Signal Sensing (ISS™) Technology
- Iso-Pod™ Stand
- Minimum Diffraction Enclosure (MDE™) Technology
- Optimised Amplifiers
- Protection Circuitry
- Reflex Port Design
- Versatile Mountings
Transparent and truthful
The 8320A provides transparent and truthful reproduction, and with its wide uncoloured sweet spot you are always in a position to make accurate, reliable mix decisions. The recycled aluminium design of it rear-ported enclosure not only provides staggering LF extension from such a compact unit, its curved form and integrated waveguide guarantees precise, detailed performance both on and off axis.
Compact but clever
As a Smart Active Monitor, the 8320A integrates closely with our GLM software via which it can be configured and calibrated for your listening environment, compensating for detrimental room influences to create a truly optimised monitoring solution from mono to immersive. So whether you work in challenging acoustic spaces or need a mobile solution that can quickly adapt to different rooms, the 8320A is your compact but clever monitoring companion.
Specifications
| System Specifications | |
| Frequency Response | 66 Hz - 20 kHz (± 1.5 dB) |
| Low cutoff -6dB | 55 Hz |
| High cutoff -6dB | 23 kHz |
| SPL | |
| Peak SPL | ≥107 dB |
| Short term max SPL | ≥100 dB |
| Long term max SPL | ≥94 dB |
| Self-generated noise | ≤5 dB SPL |
| Dimensions & Weight | |
| Height | 230 mm (9 1/16 in) |
| Height with Iso-Pod | 242 mm (9 17/32 in) |
| Width | 151 mm (5 15/16 in) |
| Depth | 142 mm (5 19/32 in) |
| Weight | 3.2 kg (7.1 lb) |
| Enclosure | |
| Enclosure material | Die cast aluminium |
| Enclosure type | Reflex port |
| Drivers | |
| Bass Driver type | Cone |
| Bass Diameter | 105 mm (4 1/8 in) |
| Treble Driver type | Metal dome |
| Treble Diameter | 19 mm (3/4 in) |
| Harmonic distortion | 50…200 Hz ≤3 % |
| > 200 Hz ≤0.5 % | |
| Amplifier Section | |
| 8320A bass amplifier | 50 W Class D |
| 8320A treble amplifier | 50 W Class D |
| Mains voltage | 100-240 VAC 50/60Hz |
| Power consumption | |
|
ISS Active |
≤0.5 W |
|
Idle |
≤3 W |
|
Full output |
50 W |
| Connectors | |
|
Input |
Analog signal input connector XLR female, balanced 10 kOhm. |
|
2 x Control |
Two CAT5 (RJ45) GLM Network connectors for computer control using the Genelec Loudspeaker Manager (GLM) software. |