So what are you mixing for? Mr Bloggs, or people with specific gear? Only they get the benefit. Please - read the posts carefully. I never even mentioned Bob Clearmountain. Maybe he did or didn't use toilet paper, but here in England, it was a talking point. Look - let's drop this. I know what I know, and you've read a great deal. Some you got spot on. Some you've got the wrong end of the stick.
We buy different mics because they sound different. So do speakers. Rooms sound different too. Further down the scale are things like a Neve Pre vs an old MCI. Some folk can even detect frequencies above those that they can hear. Then we get to amps. Poor amps can colour the sound - people speak about Class A, B and D, and discuss the benefits of crossover distortion, or not - or switch mode artefacts, but the point is that amps that colour the sound are tone controls, or if they do it intentionally, they're processors, not just amps. So many great tests since the 1970s where the hifi folk made themselves look foolish by testing regimes where they knew an amp was two grand and another was two hundred, but failed in a double blind test. The Yamaha Corporation were not slow to market amps that gave NS10s a bit of punch - but that's just because NS10 speakers sound much more impressive loud - another indication that they are not very linear.
You have some NS10s. You like them. Let's just get on shall we? You'll never convince me, and clearly you don't believe me. That too is cool with me. You won't convince the masses of recording folk that hate AKG C1000 mics that they're good, and those that have lovely old analogue gear know that they're not exactly the best thing we have available now in recording technology, they're however, very nice. I still have one of Yamaha's first digital reverbs, and I like it a lot - especially Munster Cathedral program. However, as a reverb it's 30 years old with 30 years old artefacts.
In recording and audio - I've learned that so many people have beliefs about the subject based on no real science. It's best to let them spend their money on gold plated connectors, Platinum IEC connectors and loudspeaker cables with arrows to show which direction to use them. A little bit of physics goes a very long way. The Internet is full of NS10 owners at the moment who are arguing like mad about which amp to drive them with. In my video studio, the RCF 5" monitors are connected to a rack mount amp, that says 2600W on the front. The reason was simple - it was top of the pile when I needed an amp. I couldn't care less about the spec, I've never even bothered to look. It's an amp.
