Yamaha HS50M

The studio standard 'Yamaha NS-10s' stopped being produced in 2001 due to the wood pulp in the speaker cone becoming unavailable - but Yamaha have now started a new series the 'HS' series. I wanted a set of NS-10s due to their flat frequency response and industry standard status, but I couldn't get any - I settled for the 5 inch Cone version of their new series (HD50M's) and they are AMAZING. For a 5 inch speaker cone, they have great bass presence in there, but not too much - as with the NS10s, the frequency response is still extremely flat which provides an accurate representation of your mix. These speakers are active, which means ...

Yamaha is a brand which you can trust, I have purchased many products from them in the past and they have been really reliable and real workhorses. This is a really good speaker, i wanted to replace my blown speaker for my system in my living room. This is a really good size and has a nice black finish to the box which is really well constructed. It features the well known Yamaha logo on the front. The quality of sound from this is amazing, it has amazing bass and treble output. I have used Bose in the past for a long time, but couldnt afford to purchase another Bose, so i got this. If you want value for money with good sound then get ...

These active near field monitor speakers are the replacements for Yamaha's legendary NS10 series, which have been a standard in recording studios for the past 30 years. The old adage went that if you could make your mix sound good on a pair of NS10s, then your mix would sound good on most low to mid range consumer systems. This led to the distinctive white cone of the speaker being spotted in many a studio. The irony of all this is that the NS10 is acknowledged as being an appalling sounding speaker, so why would anybody want to use it? The theory is if you mix on a up scale monitor costing hundreds of pounds, then what you hear out of your monitors will be ...