home studio mon speakers: Yamaha NS-10M ?

[jamnbread]

I"m planning to set up a home studio and considering to get a pair of Yamaha's NS-10M studio monitor speakers.

But as you konw this model has been discontinued for a long time. If i were to get a second hand, functioning and matched pair, it's approximately USD $300 .

I wonder if anyone has any suggestions...regarding monitoring speakers?
Or which model are you using at home/ studio?

Which one is the recent, and new industry standard? Any recommandation?

Thanks a lot.

[WoofWoofX]

MSP5 Yamaha... the closest to them...check them out

[Luca_Capozzi]

I've bought a pair of M-Audio BX5 and i'm totally satisfied.

see ya

[Tigerfolly]

I"m planning to set up a home studio and considering to get a pair of Yamaha's NS-10M studio monitor speakers.

But as you konw this model has been discontinued for a long time. If i were to get a second hand, functioning and matched pair, it's approximately USD $300 .

I wonder if anyone has any suggestions...regarding monitoring speakers?
Or which model are you using at home/ studio?

Which one is the recent, and new industry standard? Any recommandation?

Thanks a lot.

Really right now, there is no industry standard. NS10s are passive monitors that really don't sound very good, BUT they're great for picking out flaws in a mix and hearing what's really going on in the track. Any studio that has a pair of NS-10s also has another set of monitors and they only use the NS-10s for specific things. Depending on how high-end of a studio you go into, there could be Mackies, Genelecs, Blue Skys, Tannoys, Yamaha MSP10s or even Event 20/20s there.

The monitors you choose should fit your needs. The NS-10s are passive, meaning they have no internal amplification so you're going to need a dedicated power amp for them.. and using a cheap or noisy power amp is going to ruin any benefit you'd get from them, so if you go passive, get a good, clean, transparent power amp with 'em. If you're running digital and want to keep everything in the digital domain, look for monitors with digital i/o like the Roland DS-90A (although these work best with the Roland VS studios.. I had 'em, and they're great). The style of music you play, the type of studio you have, the budget you have to get monitors, and what kind of mixing and mastering you're going to do through them is really going to determine what you should and should not get.

Go to your local Guitar Center, Sam Ash or whatever and take a familiar cd with you. It's important to listen to something you're familiar with to really hear the differences in the frequency response of the different monitors. My suggestion is to check out the Mackie HR824s or HR624s. If those are too high for your budget, the M-Audio line isn't bad, and if you can find 'em the Alesis monitors aren't bad either.

[Angelic Layer]

The NS-10 is about the worst monitor speaker ever, try alesis or something else.

[synthguy]

Like Tigerfolly says, you really need to hear the speakers before you buy them, and use a variety of music types to check them out, like hard rock, jazz and classical. And I agree, the NS-10s are terrible speakers. Tannoy also makes some good sounding monitors, some of them are powered too so you won't have to worry about an amp or using your stereo to play them. Don't use cheap cable to hook them up either, use quality cable.

[Tigerfolly]

Like Tigerfolly says, you really need to hear the speakers before you buy them, and use a variety of music types to check them out, like hard rock, jazz and classical. And I agree, the NS-10s are terrible speakers. Tannoy also makes some good sounding monitors, some of them are powered too so you won't have to worry about an amp or using your stereo to play them. Don't use cheap cable to hook them up either, use quality cable.

NS-10s really aren't terrible monitors, they're actually excellent for finding problems in mixes.. they just don't sound good, although that's on purpose. They're very flat response monitors, so if you've got a good clean setup and a great room to mix in, you'll be able to pick out problems in the mix much easier with NS-10s. But there is a reason why they're not the only monitors in a studio; they sound like crapola.

And a very good point: quality cable. The number one cost of a studio, no matter the size or scale of it, is cabling. I tried to save money by buying a spool of excellent cable and Neutrik ends and doing all of the work myself.. and well, that was three years ago and I have avoided picking up a soldering iron for ANYTHING since then.. I'm still sick of soldering ;)

Get top of the line cables, like Monster cabling, and only get them as long as you're going to need.. try to avoid extra lengths of cable hanging around.