Genesis Genesis 201 User manual

The Genesis 201 loudspeaker system
was created for those
discriminating music
lovers who know no
compromises. This
state of the art system is
designed to reproduce
music at live listening
levels with virtually no
restrictions on dy-
namic range, frequency
response or imaging
capabilities.
201
System
absolute fidelity
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Genesis Advanced Technologies 201 System
Frequency Response 16Hz to 36kHz, ± 3dB
Sensitivity 90 dB 1 watt 1 meter
Maximum/Minimum Tube Power 500/70 watts per side
Maximum/Minimum Solid State Power 750/70 watts per side
Input Impedance 4 ohms (nominal)
HF Transducers (per side) fifteen Genesis 1” Ribbon Tweeters
Midrange Transducer (per side) 48” Genesis Ribbon
LF Transducers (per side) eight 8” cast-frame
metal-cone woofers
Amplifier Controls Phase, Gain, Low-pass, High-pass
Speaker Controls Rear Tweeters (± 1 dB)
Upper Midrange Contour (± 0.75 dB)
LF Amplifier Power Rating 4 x 400 watts RMS
Amplifier Inputs Stereo XLR (balanced), Stereo RCA
Amplifier Input Impedance 33K ohms
Mid/Tweeter Panel Dimensions H 72” x W 13.5” x D 9.75”
Woofer Tower Dimensions H 72” x W 11” x D 22”
Amplifier Dimensions H 10” x W 12” x D 19”
Mid/Tweeter & Woofer Tower Weight 650 lbs (295 kg)
Amplifier Weight 70 lbs (32 kg)
Finish Rosewood
4407 6th Ave. NW • Seattle, WA 98107 USA • 206.789.3400 • www.genesisloudspeakers.com
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The Genesis 201 is a floor standing,
four-piece loudspeaker system featur-
ing a pair of dipole midrange/tweeter pan-
els and two bi-polar woofer towers. Each
midrange/tweeter panel consists of a 48-
inch midrange ribbon, twelve front-firing
and three rear-firing 1-inch planar ribbon
tweeters. Each woofer tower contains eight
cast-frame, metal-cone woofers driven by
an 800-watt remote controlled Servo Am-
plifier. All the transducers in this unique,
state-of-the-art system have been
designed to be a nearly perfect piston
within its useable frequency band.
The 1-inch planar ribbon tweeter,
described by the audiophile press as pos-
sibly “the world’s best,” is hand-crafted
from an 0.0005 inch thick laminated membrane of
aluminum and Kapton. The extremely low mass of
the tweeter’s diaphragm means that this driver has a
frequency response considerably beyond the hu-
man hearing range.
Genesis 201’s midrange transducer is single-
piece, planar ribbon driver constructed of a very
thin layer of aluminum laminated to a 0.001 inch
thick Mylar substrate and surrounded by over 24
feet of barium ferrite magnets.
An active 1600-watt servo feedback system,
employing acceler-
ometers as sensors,
lowers the woofer
distortion by a fac-
tor of 10 compared
to its open loop
response. This re-
sults in the 201 low
frequency system
having lower distortion
and faster response
time than convention-
al designs.
Please visit our web
site for compete data
on the 201 System.
©2003 Genesis Advanced Technologies All specifications subject to change
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