They are the gold standard in professional mastering studios and broadcast environments. The movies and shows you listen to are mastered on these. If you want to hear what the mastering engineer intended, why would you want anything else? The consumer world baffles me. All kinds of tech and processors that video and audio pros would never, ever use.

There are many competitors to Genelec (Neumann, Adam, etc) and some are also very, very good. But, when you hear the Genelecs, they are fantastic and there is now doubt they are the gold standard.