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Originally Posted by
dkelley
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yes, thank god! NS10s are terrible things. they filled a niche gap because they were the best at the time. and they weren't even studio products, they were failed home stereo speakers that became marketed for studios when a couple of famous engineers "learned" them and started taking them with them when mixing at different studios so they'd have the same reference speakers everywhere. They do mix well, but they kill your ears and are not pleasant to listen to in any way. harsh, lacking in bass, painful.
very much like hs80s up close to your face. but the 80s are much easier to listen to compared to ns10s.
NS10S are NOT good speakers. they require extensive "learning" to be used for mixing. it's much easier to adjust to real monitors than those things imho.
You certainly CAN work on NS10s, plenty of people have. But there are much better choices, and the HS80 series are better imho.
Again, the reason NS10's are still used (hated and loved) by so much people is that they are very revealing. Also, due to their closed design, the transient response is much more accurate than other speakers, something the HS80's do NOT have.
I fell like Yamaha designed this speakers (with white cone and all) so people associate them with the, at this point in time, legendary NS10's. But they are NOT the same, they are not even in the same ballpark.