Need Suggestions

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Hi guys, I'm pretty new to recording and have just started a small home studio. Right now I have really crappy speakers and want to upgrade....basically I have narrowed it down to either the krk rp6's or for the same price I can get a set of Yamaha NS-10m's

I've heard so much about the yamahas but am very new to recording and I'd really appreciate your suggestions....thanks guys.
 
After being forced to do mixes on the dreaded NS-10m's for years because 'if it sounds good on these it will sound good anywhere' I wouldn't recommend them to my worst enemy.

The whole KRK series are a pleasure to listen to, non-fatiguing and a snap to put together accurate mixes that travel well from a car system to the big speaker system in the studio where I work. I have the KRK RP5's here at home and find them just the right size for a relatively untreated room.

The NS-10m's were failed home stereo speakers about to be pulled off the market in the mid-1980's when some New York or Los Angeles fool of an engineer decided they were good to mix on because 'that's what the audience listens to'. By the mid-1990's they were in every small, medium or large studio because they were the unquestioned 'industry standard'.

Buy what you want to, but do a listening test first in which you can have the KRKs and the NS-10m's side by side.

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but Is it really true the theory of "If it sounds good on the ns-10s it'll sound good anywhere"??......cause if they really do translate that well to other systems then I'd be willing to fatigue myself listening to them.
 
But fatigue is not a good thing. It doesn't help you mix long hours. I have a pair of KRK V4's that I've used a lot, and my brother has KRK ST8's which I'm also familiar with. Great value for the money in my opinion. The Yamahas have no appeal for me over a good pair of KRK's.
 
classic_rocks said:
but Is it really true the theory of "If it sounds good on the ns-10s it'll sound good anywhere"??......cause if they really do translate that well to other systems then I'd be willing to fatigue myself listening to them.
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That great-sounding platitude lasts about as long as your first encounter with true ear fatigue.

The Yamaha's are hard to listen to, plain and simple.

It doesn't make your mixes better if you've suffered for them. In fact, the longer you can stay involvolved in a mix the more you'll hear the subtleties of the instruments and the blending and conflicting frequencies therin. If I take a break I need to collect where I left off all over again and 9 out of 10 times I hear something in the final mix that makes me say 'oh yeah! That's what I was going to do after I got back from that break.'

Yamaha NS-10m's suck and always have. According to some loser engineers they used them BECAUSE they sucked.

As I said to finish my last post, try them for yourself as yours is the only opinon that counts in the end and you will have to live with whatever you decide.
 
Ok....so the yamaha's are bad....some other monitors I've been looking at are the krk rp-5's, the behringer truth 2030's, and the event tr5's. I've been leaning more in favour of the krk's....but I've also hear really great things about the behringers.
 
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