MIx you dance tunes on the porch, Mike.  Does it sound just like a club?  Your neighbors will love it - and you!

HS80Ms seem to be popular good price too infact they sound very very good. If I was to get another set of Monitors it would be them!

My thought is that if they really wanted to keep making them, they could have found a way. 

No matter how successful a product like is.... someone in a suit, at the top, with the corner window office decides they have the brilliant idea to take the company to the next level and waaa laaaa, a money making great product is discontinued and something else takes it's place in the market. Advertising is tasked with the job of selling it to the masses. It's not as good and fingers get pointed..... advertising takes the fall and the guy at the top resigns with a huge bonus and moves to a new company to repeat the process. 

Well..... that's my take on it anyway.

AT


MIx you dance tunes on the porch, Mike.  Does it sound just like a club?  Your neighbors will love it - and you!

It sounds just like one of those Miami Beach beachside discos when I pull the Klipsh La Scalas out.

:-)

But I only do that when the neighbors are acting rudely with their firearms.

:-)

zippsinc


It appears the forum is ignoring paragraph convention

I didn't know there was a convention for paragraphs. Is it in Las Vegas?
 
RE: NS10s. They are a consumer based company which was the market the NS10s were orginally designed for. The studio market is not large enough for the accountants to get interested in.

Yamaha also did the NS (or was it MS?) 10s.  I have a pair of their 8 inch monitors.

No idea why they stopped making them, tho there was a consumer scare about the beryllium used in the tweeters of the models, too.  The big ones were supposed to be right up there in the pro world, tho I never heard them.

I think Middleman is right - there were enough problems associated with them that the small market and margins didn't warrent continued production.  Finding new cones and tweeter material might have been "cost prohibitive." I'll say one thing for Yamaha, they do stuff right.  My speakers and amp still work 30+ years later.  Maybe making stuff right doesn't pay off.

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AT


Maybe making stuff right doesn't pay off.
 

Look what happened to the Twinkie company, same thing.

I haven't had a Twinkie in years... don't tell me they don't exist anymore  ;-(

Poor outlook on the Twinkie front.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/al-checchi/capitalism-and-its-discon_b_1219513.html

mike_mccue


I've been running a pair of old Auratones as window shakers for my patio.

They are hooked to a MOTU Traveler and Hafler power amp.

We only use the patio when the weather is nice. I open the window just enough to place speakers on the window sill.


The sound on the patio is striking and every now and then the house acts as a huge baffle and the bass response is alarmingly low... like a hidden sub harmonic from a kick or something that I have never heard on regular old big fella monitors..



Speakers give me the sizzzles.



best regards,
mike

I thought you liked Klipsch on the patio. guess not.....