pandamonk
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Alright guys. I'm planning on getting a pair of NS10 copies from studiospares and I'm wondering what kind of amp i need. I don't really wanna spend too much money though, but will if i have to. cheers
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GordWait
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There's no particular need to match an amp to a particular pair of speakers,
A high quality amp will make even trashy speakers sound better than a cheap amp.
You might want to reconsider the NS-10's though, the story is that the original NS-10's were bought by a recording engineer to listen to a mix through a couple of cheap home stereo speakers. A number of studios followed suite, and since the NS-10's had those distinctive black boxes with bright white speakers, every time some super high end studio photograph showed up in a magazine, those NS-10's were right there in your face. People started to assume that NS-10's must be awesome speakers cause "every pro studio uses them!".
So, not to claim that NS-10's are utter garbage (although lots of people claim so) it's just that they are supposedly ordinary stereo speakers, and not worth what people are willing to pay for them. IE any reasonably priced home bookshelf speakers would do the same or better job.
I bumped into this thread actually trying to track down anything about Yamaha NS-30X that a guy locally wants to sell, (The pair for $240 Canadian) but there is an unbeleivably low amount of info about them on the web, so I have no real idea if the NS-30X's are also junk, or reasonably good bookshelf speakers, or an amazing deal.. I'll probably pass on them, since I would assume replacement parts would be hard to come by (Apparently the NS-30X are only sold in Japan).
A high quality amp will make even trashy speakers sound better than a cheap amp.
You might want to reconsider the NS-10's though, the story is that the original NS-10's were bought by a recording engineer to listen to a mix through a couple of cheap home stereo speakers. A number of studios followed suite, and since the NS-10's had those distinctive black boxes with bright white speakers, every time some super high end studio photograph showed up in a magazine, those NS-10's were right there in your face. People started to assume that NS-10's must be awesome speakers cause "every pro studio uses them!".
So, not to claim that NS-10's are utter garbage (although lots of people claim so) it's just that they are supposedly ordinary stereo speakers, and not worth what people are willing to pay for them. IE any reasonably priced home bookshelf speakers would do the same or better job.
I bumped into this thread actually trying to track down anything about Yamaha NS-30X that a guy locally wants to sell, (The pair for $240 Canadian) but there is an unbeleivably low amount of info about them on the web, so I have no real idea if the NS-30X's are also junk, or reasonably good bookshelf speakers, or an amazing deal.. I'll probably pass on them, since I would assume replacement parts would be hard to come by (Apparently the NS-30X are only sold in Japan).
pandamonk said:
pandamonk
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Sorry man, i don't get you...giraffe said:ns 10 copies, need speakers
I'm sure it was funny though
pandamonk
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Thanks very much for the reply. I understand that NS10s aren't top of the range studio speakers and should only be used for reference. I duno, i just liked the look and price of these speakers, and thought that they might be at least decent for their price.GordWait said:
I might just go for a pair of tascam vl-x5 active monitors on that site, with 5.25" low freq. drivers for £175, or studiospares own actives for £140 with 6".
Aww, i don't know why I'm thinking about this just now. I need to save before i can afford anything for my studio. It's not even fully built yet...
pandamonk
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Ohh, and i understand this. It's just that i don't know what ohm etc it should be, and what amps are high quality.GordWait said:
pandamonk
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Haha, I just said i couldn't afford speakers right now... Guess what I've just gone and done...
The reason i was asking about the NS10 copies is because I've had my eye on a pair of speakers from thomann for a while now, the box NF06 A, and today i just went on to check them out, and they were gone. Must be discontinued or something. I was so disappointed and was looking around for other speakers. I remembered about these copies and that's when i decided to ask about them. Anyway, i just checked thomann and noticed that they've just put up a set of ex demos of the 1s i wanted, for £80!!! So they're now mine, haha. They were ment to be £100, i know not really much for studio monitors, but they have 6.5" woofers, and don't seem much worse than speakers worth £200-300. I have a bunch of thomann own brand stuff and it's pretty decent for the price. Anyway, thanks for the replies.
The reason i was asking about the NS10 copies is because I've had my eye on a pair of speakers from thomann for a while now, the box NF06 A, and today i just went on to check them out, and they were gone. Must be discontinued or something. I was so disappointed and was looking around for other speakers. I remembered about these copies and that's when i decided to ask about them. Anyway, i just checked thomann and noticed that they've just put up a set of ex demos of the 1s i wanted, for £80!!! So they're now mine, haha. They were ment to be £100, i know not really much for studio monitors, but they have 6.5" woofers, and don't seem much worse than speakers worth £200-300. I have a bunch of thomann own brand stuff and it's pretty decent for the price. Anyway, thanks for the replies.
pandamonk
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pandamonk said:
Just been talking to thomann, and someone ordered them before me... Doesn't matter, the guy on the phone said they were crap anyway, haha. 
