Stop jabbering. The yamaha are decent speakers. Try them with good amplifier (Mac, Krell) and you will discover thet the mid way is not so bad...remember the listening must be at close range. Anyway, i give an advice to the sound engineers; try the new B&W 805N...

Obviously all you people that give these monitors a bad rap don't know what the hell your talking about. I have done some audio engineering, and the whole premise of monitoring sound in a studio is to monitor sound on systems that relate to the general public's average audio system, which is an audio that cost the average home listner $300.00 at best. As the matter of fact most engineers mix sound so that it will sound decent on your average car stereo (and that doesn't mean your custom audio car guy who rattles the tires off your car as he drives by you on the freeway). So what good would it do to monitor sound, in a studio, with high powered state of the art monitors, when the average Joe Dick has a getto blaster in his garage for his listening pleasure. Without getting into information that's way over everyone head, these monitors are meant to be used for very few applications, and it does not include home listening.No these monitors will not rattle your teeth,, but they are true.

Hey Sam the NSM-10 are true to what exactly,your Joe getto blasta?The boombox is very far from any truth.Yes the NSM-10's are used to give the studio
an idea of how this or that pop crap song will sound on $99 boom boxes.But to
give this speaker anything near 3 stars is a big farce.

Andy, AE1's are also near field monitors. They work EXTREMELY well in a home environment. Imaging is outstanding. Detail is incredible yet not harsh. Midrange is world class. NSM-10's are simple dreadful speakers regardless of application. The treble is absurdly harsh. Mids are dry and bass is thumpy. They are one of the primary reasons that most CD's sound as bad as they do.
Deserves less than ZERO Stars simply because of damage they do in producing CD's.

They never reveal the truth.(Pardon the Pun.) Compact size for tight situations.

They never reveal the truth. Crude drivers.

The debate continues! Being an audiophile and having previous "home studio" experiences I'd have to say that these are indeed a "mixing tool".
They have a "sound" that won't please hardcore audiophiles.
I've compared the Yamaha's to the above monitors. No contest. They sound inferior in all aspects to my ears!
But maybe this is a good thing! Let's face it, most record companies could give a care less about sound quality!
These monitors are used to mix for average systems or less.
I've spent a lot of time/money on so called "high end" equipment and have gotten caught up in all the hoopla.
I'm to the point where I won't turn on my system anymore due to lack of satisfaction! I think 16/44 is crude!
Therefore to use these "monitors" as mixing tools or just for background listening , they would be recommended.
To listen critically these days it too much work!!
The hope of the "high end" is fading...audio sucks!

Similar Products Used:

Tannoy System 800, Tannoy Reveal , Mackie Active Monitors

First the NSM-10 sound OK.But OK is not good enough,and to see so many studiosuse those jokes as nearfield monitors is terrible.THIS EXPLAINS WHY SO MANY RECORDS SOUND SO BAD.If you want to hear real good monitors listen to Dynaudio
Contour 1.1.The Contour 1.1 will make the NSM-10 sound defective.Most good studios use Dynaudio.Dynaudio makes far better speakers than Yamaha any way you look at it.If you want quality check the B&W monitors or Tannoy.Ok if you want to hear the truth Dynaudio,Tannoy or B&W is the way to go.

They tell the truth, not what you want to hear!

They tell the truth, not what you want to hear!

If you don't record music it seems pretty stupid to comment on recording styles and methods. That said, these are not room filling earthquake producing speakers. When used as intended by whom they were intened for they serve their purpose well.
When compared to consumer speakers that are mainly designed to "sound good" they come up short in the "listening pleasure dept". But then again what speaker in the consumer market is specifically designed to sit at a set distance apart and away from the listener? Not many!
As another listener pointed out many bad mixes have come through these speakers, and he's right. The other side of that is that for years at the tracking, mixing , or mastering stages ; almost 80% of the greatest recordings have passed through these speakers first; before hitting those $5000 color boxes.Of the speakers reviewed as a whole almost none of them are even close to being accurate enough for production use. But these boxes get great responses from the end user.
As far as the mackie's go my experience shows that the 8' driver and dispersion lens give them a better sound overall- they do not translate mixes well.Great fullpage ads though!

1. Studio nearfield monitors-Not for full room listening
2. Studio monitors-What goes in is what comes out.
3. They tell the truth. not what you want to hear.
4. Audiophiles and audio enthusiast are seperated only by budget.
5. Most self acclaimed audiophiles have zero experience in music production.
6. Most reviewers of audio gear don't actually own/use it.
7. If you bought a high end cd player because of better sound quality you are too easily misled to render a realistic review on a touchy subject like studio monitors/speakers.
8. Reference Quality- a silly marketing term and nothing more.
9. Speakers rise and fall in opinion depending on music taste.
10. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion!

Similar Products Used:

NS-1000, Armyan custom 2-12 control room monitors
Celion-Martin custom nearfeild monitors.

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If you want to f u c k up your mix, rely on the NS10!

These speakers are designed to let the mixer / engineer know roughly what something will sound like on a bad boom box or car radio or TV. They fail at this job - very half-a s s e d in every respect - simply awful sounding c r a p.

You can do a similar sort of reference by using EQ and compression on a REAL set of speakers, and perhaps running things through a bit of distortion as well, but really the best way is just to use a cheap Sony Boom Box. The Sony Boom Boxes have drivers in them that have relatively detailed midrange and sound like most people's stuff - Sony stuff is extreemely popular! And also a cheapo Sony Boom Box will cost you about 5X less and you can take them with you to the beach :)

If you want to hear what something sounds like in different environments, the best way is to use processing, not hardware. This is industry brainwashing that makes people buy more c r a p they don't need, filling their studios with junk. It saddens me how brainwashed people are to think these things really help their mixes! It is a joke! Thank god for Napster the recording industry is going to get killed by the public anyway maybe then we will have more fresh ideas!

Similar Products Used:

$60 Sony Boom Box