New Monitors!!!

Yamaha HS 80 M's!!!

soooooooo purdy...drools.

Yeah, i originally went to GC for the KRK 8's. I had heard them before was was pretty impressed for the price. So i go in there and see that they also had the Yamaha's set up so i asked my guy Kevin (he's been my sales rep at gc forever here in san diego) if i could hear them and he said no! lol

He said that if i heard the Yamaha's, i wouldnt want to mix on the KRK's! lol so i finally get him to A/B the KRK's and the Yamaha's and HOLY CRAP was there a huge difference.

The Yamaha's had tons more clarity and sounded much more realistic. Crisp highs, mids and tight low end, really flat sounding, nothing seemed to be exaggerated. I was sold! Man it really helps when you can A/B them like that.

I also love the room correction controls, they really help with dialing in to your room specs. Also in my room, they sound exactly like my beyerdynamic dt70 headphones! I cant wait to start having consistant mixes!!!

Sweet...so iv stole Cryophonik's monitor speakers and Lhansen's pod xt pro!!

If i keep this up, i'll have a new setup in no time!!!

What desk is that Cryo and Dantes?

Cheers
Mike

bump!

sorry, had to show off my new monitors again!! lol

Have you ever owned NS-10's? If so how would you explain the difference between the two models?

ORIGINAL: millzy

Have you ever owned NS-10's? If so how would you explain the difference between the two models?

According to ads and reviews they're supposed to have all the good points of the NS-10s but they have improved on the bad points (high-mid harshness and lack of low-end extension/articulation).

Sven

Nice, i wana hear yours and you wana hear mine! lol

Ok, here's what we do, we send each other our left speakers! lol

So are the ns10's powered, or no? And they have a 10' woofer right? hence ns10...not ns8? lol You'd think that they would have more bass response with the 10' speaker.

However, yes, these are supposed to be less harsh on the ears and have more low end. There are cool room controls on the back of these things, for adjusting highs, mids and lows and room compensation. Since mine are close to the wall, i was instructed to drop "room control" by like -2db. This corrects the low frequency exaggeration caused by reflections. dropping to -2db lowers all frequencys from 500 and lower down 2db.

Some people talk about a "hiss" that comes from the speakers when they are cranked, however im running mine 3/4 open and havent heard any hissing. even at 3/4 open, i can only turn my firepod up to the 10 o clock position. (7 o clock is all the way down) Basicly im saying these things are really loud.

Unfortunatly these are my first and only monitors though. I a/b these with some others at gc, but iv never spent any time with monitors to really know how these stack up with the others. but i do know i love how they sound and that they were worth every penny!