Anyone recommend a decent amp for yamaha ns10's

SubLik · Post by **SubLik** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 11:20 am

I'm after a decent amp for NS10's, is there an industry standard amp to go with them.

Much Apreciated

SubFunk · Post by **SubFunk** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 11:39 am

if you want the so called 'standard' sound everyone is talking about then the only choice is BRYSTON. that is the amp any pro studio around the world drives ns10s with [costing around 3000 dollar a piece, i forgot the excact model no. but the high range bryston for 3 grand a pievce is the one!] so know you now why ns10s can be good. [even i still think they very much suck]

punkdISCO · Post by **punkdISCO** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 1:52 pm

SubFunk wrote:so know you now why ns10s can be good. [even i still think they very much suck]

I don’t think you will find any noticeable difference in a set of NS10s when using a 3k amp. If you have 3k to spend you will get considerably more gains from upgrading to set of actives.

Regarding the NS10s very much sucking, remember that the NS10s are designed to suck. Commonly described as ‘grot box’ speakers, they are supposed to represent what your mixes will sound like on a home HiFi, car or iPod etc. I just got these grot box speaks as a second reference point, Avantone MixCubes. Really recommend having some secondary reference monitors and they were dirt cheap..

Btw, I drive my MixCubes with a bulk standard Alesis RA-100 which is completely fine for such an application (NS10s included). I think the newer version is the RA150

Good luck dude and let us know what you go for..!

funkdefino · Post by **funkdefino** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 1:53 pm

It's the Bryston 4B SST

SubFunk · Post by **SubFunk** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 1:58 pm

funkdefino wrote:It's the Bryston 4B SST

yupp, that is the one!

SubFunk · Post by **SubFunk** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 1:59 pm

punkdISCO wrote:
SubFunk wrote:so know you now why ns10s can be good. [even i still think they very much suck]
I don’t think you will find any noticeable difference in a set of NS10s when using a 3k amp. If you have 3k to spend you will get considerably more gains from upgrading to set of actives.

Regarding the NS10s very much sucking, remember that the NS10s are designed to suck. Commonly described as ‘grot box’ speakers, they are supposed to represent what your mixes will sound like on a home HiFi, car or iPod etc. I just got these grot box speaks as a second reference point, Avantone MixCubes. Really recommend having some secondary reference monitors and they were dirt cheap..

Btw, I drive my MixCubes with a bulk standard Alesis RA-100 which is completely fine for such an application (NS10s included). I think the newer version is the RA150

Good luck dude and let us know what you go for..!

and it does make a hell of a difference.

Sales Dude McBoob · Post by **Sales Dude McBoob** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 2:07 pm

Oh, sweet paradox... $3000 of amplifier needed to simulate what a shitty walkman will sound like.

punkdISCO · Post by **punkdISCO** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 2:21 pm

SubFunk wrote:and it does make a hell of a difference.

Sorry dude, but it would be a total false economy and would give a marginal improvement over a $150 amp. We have to remember that we are driving NS10s here – they cost like $200 used for a good reason! Heck, you can buy brand new NS10 replicas that use most of the original parts for about $250. Would be like putting some super expense McLarren tires on a Fiat 126

..its still a Fiat 126.

Now, if you want to spend $3k on improved monitoring you could get SERIOUS improvements by starting over and maybe keeping the NS10s as secondary monitors (which they are very good at). 3k opens up a huge amount of option

SubFunk · Post by **SubFunk** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 6:42 pm

Sales Dude McBoob wrote:Oh, sweet paradox... $3000 of amplifier needed to simulate what a shitty walkman will sound like.

that is the paradox of realism

SubLik · Post by **SubLik** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 2:43 pm

Thanks for the advice. I am using the NS10's as secondary monitoring. I have a set of active tuned reference 'Events' for primary monitoring, although eventually I wanna chop 'em in for some 'Adams'.

Thankx Again

I think I'm going for the cheap option.