Genesis Profile P16

A two-way component speaker system with separate tweeter units, midbass drivers and passive crossovers. Complete with a mounting kit to fit the tweeters in more than one application and screws and fixings. The passives are small and cute looking, being mounted in short sections of fluted extruded Aluminium heatsink. One one end is a pair of lugs to fit speaker cable input to and on the other are four lugs to fit the HF and midbass output wires to.
The tweeters are a large diameter design and reach a couple of kilohertz up into the beyond-hearing bat frequencies so vital for overtones, harmonics and preserving headroom at high notes. The midbass cones do not look like fabric as they are coated with a blue layer over the woven glassfibre. This gives many of the benefits of exotic Kevlar cones but with none of the cost.
– Power Handling 80w RMS
– Sensitivity 90dB 1w/1M
– Own Pink noise test figure 113.8dB (Vol @20 @ trk 9 dB Drag Vol III)
– Passband 65Hz to 22kHz
– Tweeter diameter 25mm
– Tweeter Mounting Depth 20mm
– Midbass Mounting Depth 65mm
– Cone: Coated fibreglass composite
– Tweeter:Silk dome
– Crossover slope & point: 6dB phase corrected at 3.5kHz
– Chassis: Pressed steel
– Complete with: fixings
Review by Adam Rayner
Designed by one of the UK’s most eminent automotive electronics geniuses, these speakers are made to a price but just a fairly high one. They do also make some simply bonkers-quaility speakers too and we’ll get at them as well one day. In the meanwhile for far less than many in the group, these speakers proved themselves to be a bit of a treat. They were rare in the group to use lugs to connect the passives up with you crimp a spade terminal receptacle to the ends of your speakers leads, both in and outputs from the passives.
The sound from the mids was beautiful in the low tones and the midband alike. The tweeters are fast and tinkly for the money but in another accolade to a tremendous driver the the mids are better of their type than are the tweeters. This isn’t to say that the set doesn’t score highly for sound it’s just that at this level you can still tell which bit is the best one. They love to be played loud and stay unfatiguing and reasonably linear as they get wicked up, which is a rarity, too. These are an amazingly high quality buy for the price tag they wear. Recommended.
Overall 8.8
Sound Quality 9
Build Quality 8
Power Handling 9
Efficiency 8
Value For Money 10