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NS 1000's are in a sense doing everything wrong by todays standards. Three Radioshack looking drivers cheap wire clips with a super complicated cross overs to colour the sound and about as many control knob as you can wave a stick at and a non bass reflex design. If that is not bad enough they are made by a large company and not by a bunch of dedicated nerds with silver ears. Yet these battered, ugly and heavy behemoths replaced my beautifully crafted and stylishly understated Monitor Audios after about 10 mins of listening.Why?
Well they have real bass not just that wall of bass sound. I had no idea that there were so many different qualities to bass. The bass is tight and incredibly enough seems directional too. Those who say they are bass shy speakers don't understand that these are bookshelf speakers (for very big shelves admittedly) and not designed to be stand mounted in the middle of a room. They are frequently mounted INTO the walls in recording studios. They can fill a room with real bass that creates a pressure wave, like when you are in a car and someone slams a door, you feel your ears go thud. There is not much point discussing the midrange. It is so realistic it almost sounds wrong. Voices sound like something other than a speaker is creating the sound. Timbre and subtle sounds that I have never heard a speaker make before are constantly popping up. I was listening to some music and someone outside the window hit a metal spade on the sidewalk. No one was there. I was the fool. You got me there Yamaha! That is how dynamic they are.
Purists will hate the L pads. I love them. They are the only "tone control " in my system. They allow you to adjust the speakers to your room. If you move your speakers a lot they are very useful. I find with the speaker covers on the flat position works best. Take the covers off and they need to be backed off a tad. Recording studios are usually pretty dead rooms so I can see the need to be able to boost the highs.
Someone I know recently bought some Living Voice speakers. You can buy 200 pairs of these for the price I paid for these at a yard sale. These speakers are full, bouncy fun one moment and the next crystalline and delicate. They are a joy to listen to. They keep you entertained with all that is happening in the music as they lay it out for you in a way that says "Yeah, Yeah, I can do that too, no trouble."
If these speakers were re-released today they would be still be up there with the best. What is Yamaha's problem? They could sell them for $5000 and they would be flying off the shelf. They are a crazy bargain at $95. Simply the best speakers I have heard to date. Listened to and owned some of the following:-Quad ELS, B & W, Altecs, living Voice. 47 labs, Proac, AR , Monitor Audio. etc. etc. in various system.
I guess this is what you would call a positive review?
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