Genelec has chosen the IBC 2024 exhibition to unveil the UNIO Personal Reference Monitoring Solution. Genelec's UNIO Ecosystem gives audio engineers the ability to seamlessly navigate different monitoring options, for the flexibility to work anywhere, anytime – from stereo to immersive. Bringing the precise resolution and adaptive power of Genelec's Smart Active Monitoring (SAM), GLM and Aural ID Technology to the engineer's fingertips, UNIO allows the rapid creation of mixes that translate with maximal consistency.

A special place in the UNIO system hold the 8550A Professional Reference Headphones, whose innovative active design allows the headphone output of the 9320A controller to adjust to an individual 8550A headphone factory calibration, thus bringing precise resolution to the uniquely optimised UNIO Personal Reference Monitoring Solution. This active principle of using the 8550A headphones to accurately calibrate the headphone stage of the 9320A enables exceptional linearity, acoustic precision, and neutral sound character – and mirrors the kind of tailored precision that Genelec Smart Active Monitors provide for in-room loudspeaker monitoring environments. The closed, circumaural 8550A provides exceptional sound isolation and comfort for all sizes of head and ears with a durable, adjustable design and replaceable component parts – for a sustainable, extended product lifetime.

The headphones 8550A are part of the UNIO Personal Reference Monitoring Solution and are not available separately.