8010A
speaker
$395
Used market: $285*
Specifications
3 of 4 values have a recorded sourceExpert Audio Engineering Commentary
Headroom Notes
A 76 mm woofer in a die-cast aluminium box. The number to carry is the short-term maximum, ≥96 dB SPL at 1 m: that one is per speaker, on axis, in half space. The ≥105 dB on the same sheet is the pair, sitting on a console, with music — three separate advantages folded into one figure.
What the datasheet actually says
Quoted verbatim from the manufacturer’s own page, with the date we checked it. We state what is printed, not what anyone intended by it.
«Peak SPL ≥105 dB — Maximum peak acoustic output per pair on top of console, at 1 m distance with music material.»
Genelec's headline peak figure is measured for two speakers playing together, and the row says so. Two coherent sources add up to about 6 dB over one, but how much of that you actually get depends on their spacing and on the listening position, so the number cannot be converted to a per-speaker figure afterwards. The same table's short-term row is the per-speaker, on-axis, half-space number, and that is the one that can be lined up against another maker's per-speaker figure. On the 8010A the same row also names a placement — «on top of console» — which adds boundary gain on top of the pair coupling.
checked 8/5/2026* Estimated with the depreciation fallback (~72% retained value). · checked on 8/5/2026