LJB
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Deal or No Deal? (monitors)
If a music store offered to take your pair of Mint-condition NS10-M Studio monitors (with manual and box) which you never use anyway, off you in a straight swop for a brand new set of Yamaha HS80s and matching Yamaha Sub, would you do it?
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Guitarhacker
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Re:Deal or No Deal? (monitors)
2010/12/02 08:24:43
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Looks like the mint condition NS-10M is the better speaker, from just a few minutes of googling things... I found the HS80 selling new at $350 and the NS-10 selling used at $500 (approximate prices) So it looks like you'd be trading down. I have done that a time or two, and almost invariably kicked myself in the butt for doing it at some future point. It is always cool to get new shiny gear, but the old stuff that you have is better IMO so, if it was me, I would keep the old better stuff. What do you monitor with right now if you don't use the NS-10M's? If you need (or simply want) a sub, just but one of them. I bought a Polk audio sub for a decent price to add to my MR5 monitors. IIRC about $200 or so on sale at Crutchfield.
post edited by Guitarhacker - 2010/12/02 08:26:22
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Re:Deal or No Deal? (monitors)
2010/12/02 12:36:40
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I'll tell you what, you send me the NS-10Ms and I'll send you you $350 or a set of HS80's. your choice.
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Re:Deal or No Deal? (monitors)
2010/12/02 13:45:45
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HS 80s are $349 each not a pair... plus the sub...
i would do it.. NS10s? yuk.. still dont know how they became the "standard" kinda like pro fools...
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Re:Deal or No Deal? (monitors)
2010/12/02 14:18:56
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LJB
If a music store offered to take your pair of Mint-condition NS10-M Studio monitors (with manual and box) which you never use anyway, off you in a straight swop for a brand new set of Yamaha HS80s and matching Yamaha Sub, would you do it?
Outside the usability question, I would sell the NS10-M monitors and get as much money as you can for them. Then you can buy any monitors you want. This is a market value thing, noting to do with how each speaker sounds. I paid $150 for my pair of NS10-M monitors in the early 90's and sold them about 6 years ago for $550 on e-bay. Might be worth even more now.
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LJB
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Re:Deal or No Deal? (monitors)
2010/12/02 15:00:13
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To put it in perspective, in South Africa a set of HS80s plus Sub will cost around 1400-00 USD after shipping (retail) - yes folks, we get screwed here with the exchange rate and the markups. That's what the shop has essentially offered me, but I could ask them for Adams or anything else to the same value (bearing in mind that here, Adams A7X also cost about 1400 USD. The 10s spent the last 6 years looking cool but not even plugged in as I prefer my Quad L2s. So I suppose my real question is what better choices might there be if the HS80s were not the best bang for the "buck", so to speak. What I would like is a pair of solid monitors that have an industry standard feel about them, to ad to my monitor setup.
post edited by LJB - 2010/12/02 15:02:29
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Re:Deal or No Deal? (monitors)
2010/12/02 18:57:45
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I would go for that swap if you're looking for a decent 2.1 system. I have a pair of HS80M's and like them. (no sub though - but don't need one either.)
Adams are nice. Haven't heard the newer A7X series yet, but if they have more bottom end than the A7's, then those would be a good choice as well.
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Re:Deal or No Deal? (monitors)
2010/12/03 10:52:08
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+1 on the Adams i would take those over near anything
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Re:Deal or No Deal? (monitors)
2010/12/06 17:42:24
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LJB
The 10s spent the last 6 years looking cool but not even plugged in as I prefer my Quad L2s.
Yeah... that's what happened with my 10s, looked cool but out of 60 songs I didn't get a single good mix out of them. Total waste of my youth, I would have done better with 6x9 car speakers in boxes. Wish I had bought Mackies when they first came out. Today the selection is fantastic back in the 90s it was crap.
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Re:Deal or No Deal? (monitors)
2010/12/06 18:10:25
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I've owned a pair of Yamaha HS-80's now for over a year and love them. I did about an hour of a/b testing at the store before I bought them. They sounded the best to me out of 15 different pairs of all makes/models/sizes. They have that sound to them where you couldn't tell where the music was coming from. Hard to explain, but I don't regret buying them. I plan on getting the matching sub someday because I have a hard time mixing bass. I know it's my room, but I still want the sub to complete the set. There are a couple of songs in my signature that I mixed on my HS-80's in a small, untreated room.
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