Genelec 8340A Smart Active Monitor – Deliver exceptional accuracy & intelligent room adaptation

Genelec 8340A Smart Active Monitor

The Genelec 8340A Smart Active Monitor is a premium professional studio loudspeaker designed to deliver exceptional accuracy, intelligent room adaptation, and consistent audio performance across a wide range of production environments. Combining advanced acoustic engineering with innovative Smart Active Monitoring (SAM™) technology, the Genelec 8340A empowers audio professionals to make critical mixing and mastering decisions with complete confidence.

Built in Finland with Genelec’s renowned commitment to quality and precision, the Genelec 8340A Smart Active Monitor features a powerful two-way active design incorporating a 6.5-inch woofer and a 0.75-inch metal dome tweeter. This carefully engineered driver combination provides detailed midrange reproduction, extended low-frequency response, and remarkably transparent high frequencies, ensuring every nuance of your mix is reproduced with outstanding clarity.

The Genelec 8340A Smart Active Monitor is ideal for recording studios, post-production facilities, broadcast environments, editing suites, content creation spaces, and immersive audio installations. Whether you are mixing music, mastering audio, editing video soundtracks, or creating Dolby Atmos content, the 8340A delivers a reliable and highly accurate monitoring experience.

At the core of the monitor’s performance is Genelec’s innovative Smart Active Monitoring technology. SAM™ enables the loudspeaker to communicate directly with Genelec Loudspeaker Manager (GLM™) software, providing intelligent calibration and networked control capabilities.

Every room introduces acoustic challenges such as reflections, standing waves, and frequency anomalies that can negatively affect monitoring accuracy. Using the included GLM ecosystem, the Genelec 8340A Smart Active Monitor automatically analyzes your listening environment and optimizes level, delay, phase, and frequency response to compensate for room-related issues.

This intelligent calibration process allows engineers and producers to work more efficiently while ensuring mixes translate consistently across headphones, consumer playback systems, home theaters, and professional venues.

The monitor’s robust die-cast aluminum enclosure incorporates Genelec’s proprietary Minimum Diffraction Enclosure (MDE™) technology, which minimizes cabinet resonances and edge diffraction effects. Combined with the Directivity Control Waveguide (DCW™), the Genelec 8340A Smart Active Monitor provides exceptionally accurate imaging, a broad listening sweet spot, and excellent off-axis performance.

The advanced reflex port design extends bass response while maintaining low distortion and outstanding transient accuracy. The included Iso-Pod™ isolation stand helps reduce vibration transfer and allows precise adjustment of the monitor angle for optimal positioning.

With integrated Class D amplification delivering 150 watts for the low-frequency driver and 90 watts for the high-frequency driver, the Genelec 8340A Smart Active Monitor offers ample headroom and dynamic range for critical listening applications.

Its intelligent digital signal processing continuously optimizes performance, ensuring exceptional tonal balance at both low and high listening levels.

Connectivity options are designed to accommodate modern production workflows. The Genelec 8340A Smart Active Monitor includes balanced analog XLR input, AES/EBU digital input and output, and dual RJ45 network ports for GLM integration. This flexibility allows seamless deployment in both analog and digital studio environments.

The monitor also features Intelligent Signal Sensing (ISS™) technology, which automatically places the speaker into a low-power standby mode when no audio signal is detected. This energy-efficient functionality reduces power consumption without compromising convenience.

Audio professionals worldwide trust Genelec for its legendary reliability, precise imaging, and consistent performance. The Genelec 8340A Smart Active Monitor continues this heritage by offering intelligent room optimization and uncompromising sonic accuracy in a compact yet powerful design.

From stereo music production to complex immersive audio systems, the Genelec 8340A Smart Active Monitor provides the tools needed to achieve outstanding results.

If you demand accurate monitoring, intelligent calibration, exceptional build quality, and future-ready connectivity, the Genelec 8340A Smart Active Monitor is an excellent investment for any professional audio environment.

Experience the confidence of hearing every detail exactly as intended with the Genelec 8340A Smart Active Monitor.

Features

• Smart Active Monitoring (SAM™) technology
• Automatic room optimization with GLM™ software
• 6.5-inch low-frequency woofer
• 0.75-inch metal dome tweeter
• 240 W total Class D amplification
• 150 W LF amplifier
• 90 W HF amplifier
• Integrated DSP processing
• Directivity Control Waveguide (DCW™)
• Minimum Diffraction Enclosure (MDE™)
• Advanced bass reflex port design
• Balanced analog XLR input
• AES/EBU digital input and output
• Dual RJ45 ports for GLM networking
• Intelligent Signal Sensing (ISS™)
• Iso-Pod™ isolation stand included
• Wide listening sweet spot
• Low distortion and exceptional imaging
• Suitable for stereo and immersive audio systems

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Specifications

Download the Technical Datasheet – Genelec 8340A

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