Genelec SAM active studio monitors for home use

There's quite a difference between active speakers designed for home use (such as the Devaliet or KEF LS50W) and studio monitors. Studio monitors are specifically designed for mixing and are extremely neutral, but with that comes some lack of "joie de vivre", just plain boring.

I'm not saying the the Genelec's won't sound good, they most definitely will, but I'm not too convinced you'd like to listen to them hours on end year after year.

On the other hand, active studio monitors in a HT works quite ok.

I'm very interested in experiences from audiophiles with these genelecs. Particularly in their capability to convey the tone of the instruments, and how they perform with female voices. I want to upgrade my Proac 1sc+Valve amp (20W class A) for near field listening, and I don't find anything at 5-6k this the level of engineering of these Genelecs. On the passive models, I'm considering as well the Revel M126Be.

I owned some Genelec 8020, which were terrible at low volume levels, and because of that I replaced them for the Proac 1Sc. However these 8331/8341/8351 seem to be in another league. 

“...wow one of them is 111db efficiency.”

I think that dB number refers to how loud they can be played not efficiency or sensitivity. Those metrics are somewhat moot as the speakers are active.
Here’s some information about their in-room performance.
https://www.genelec.com/sites/default/files/media/Studio%20monitors/Catalogues/genelec_monitors_in-r...

Well, with qualified pro monitors you get the truth, For me that's not boring. Be prepared that some of your favourites will not sound as nice as before. But the good ones will sound even better. That includes female voices :-) Generally I don't find active speakers made for home listening that interesting. They actually tend to sound a bit boring. Like the active LS50.(which I got). Naturally also prospeakers differ. Some are made to reveal all too much of the mistakes in a mix. Those should be avoided for listening. They are a working tool. Geithain, Amphion, PMC, ATC are examples of other very well regarded pro brands. New brands to look for are Kii and Dutch & Dunn. 

I’m running a set of the 8341’s on my desk and couldn’t be happier.  The SAM functionality works well (took a lot of the mid mud out for my room).  As others have said, they are honest monitors...crap in, crap out.  One thing that impressed me the most was the amount of solid, tight bass they put out.