yeah... I was sort of jabbing at the point of thinking car boom box woofers are designed for anything other than pushing an annoying amount of air SOLELY like an air pressure attack on nearby vehicles, and not too worried about accuracy in "listening" to bass.
HS80s don't sound like the ns10s since they are completely different designs, but the freq can be adjusted to SEEM similar.
hs80 is ported, ns10 is not
hs80 has polypropylene woofer, ns10 is paper (cardboard)
hs80 tweeter is simetrically aligned, ns10 is not
hs80 housing is super nanonic alien robo-metali-plasticene*, ns10 is wood
*may not be entirely accurate description
when I bought my 80s (there, I said it, I'm a happy owner) I did 3 months of exhaustive research, visited the local Guitar Center (my only option to hear speaks live in my locale) helped them tune and realign their listening center speakers line up - which, I will add, was just hideous: right speakers in corner, levels all over the place, speakers at different levels include at me feet and above my head.... anyway, after literally hours of test tones, listening to reference disks, the HS80 sounded better, clearer, tighter than anything else they had. To me. So, that is why they work for me. The m-audios, krks, mackie, etc were all less defined and some even muddy bass. The new TANNOY is interesting - more upfront, but clear and detailed - maybe too much but I am not sure since I dont own them, but they were very detailed. And lacked ALL the bass of everything else.
My 12 cents