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Re: What should replace Yamaha NS-10 in all the studios?...

Posted by Bob Olhsson (P) on June 25, 2001 at 14:52:07

In Reply to: What should replace Yamaha NS-10 in all the studios?... posted by RichardH on June 16, 2001 at 11:56:16:

The way we got into the NS-10 was by way of the NS-4 being discontinued.

The NS-4 had been the largest selling mid-fi speaker which made it popular as a real world reference. As it happened, musical balances made using NS-4s also translated extremely well to other speakers. Because it was being used professionally, Yamaha's supply of replacement drivers ran out at almost the same time the speaker was dropped leaving a lot of people stranded. The NS-10 was a "high-end" speaker that was Yamaha's closest equivalent to the NS-4. It was pretty expensive for what it was so there were still plenty available. As our trusty NS-4s gave up the ghost, we switched to the brighter NS-10s.

Bob Clearmountain had been an avid NS-4 user. He was interviewed in a magazine and NS-10s with tissue taped to the tweeters were noticed on the console. The next thing we knew, just about every studio in the world was sporting NS-10s with tissue paper over the tweeters. Yamaha followed up with a less bright "pro" version that many people didn't think translated as well as the consumer version.

A very good question is "what is the largest selling "mid-fi" speaker today?"

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