

Used ns 10 yamaha sale drivers#
Its two drivers are a 180 mm paper woofer and a 35 mm soft-domed tweeter. The domestic version of the speaker was vertically oriented, and came factory fitted with a grille.
Used ns 10 yamaha sale skin#
Its 2.5 cm (0.98 in) particle-board cabinet has a wood veneer skin with seven black finishing layers. Mix reported in 2008 that variants of the NS-10 were still commercially available in the Japanese consumer market. Even years after it was discontinued, the speaker continued to be found in studios everywhere. Yamaha stopped manufacturing the speaker in 2001, citing problems sourcing the wood pulp for the drivers. Gizmodo referred to it as "the most important loudspeaker you never heard of". In excess of 200,000 pairs were sold throughout the world. Recording studios around the world, particularly those specialising in rock and pop music, adopted the speaker as the standard. He was one of a new breed of creative freelance recording engineers and producers who would travel from studio to studio equipped with their own gear that included microphones, and a pair of Yamaha NS-10, as a reference. It became a legend that Clearmountain had chosen it because it was the worst speaker he could find. Clearmountain, then a rising star in record production, is often credited for the popularity of the NS-10 Phil Ward, writing in Sound on Sound, suggested that Clearmountain was probably not the earliest, but was certainly the most influential early adopter. Įarly use of the NS-10 among engineers include Bob Clearmountain, Rhett Davies, and Bill Scheniman in the US, and Nigel Jopson in the UK. Its use spread to New York where the NS-10 was adopted at The Power Station and other studios. Other engineers heard the NS-10 for the first time and were impressed by its sound. Ladanyi then began using the speakers in a Los Angeles studio. The engineer, likely to have been Greg Ladanyi, monitored a recording session through the speaker in a Japanese studio and brought a pair back on his return to the US. It probably first reached American shores through a recording engineer's visit to Japan. The NS-10 displaced the Auratone 5C Sound Cube as the nearfield monitor of choice in the 1980s and was recognised for its ability to reveal shortcomings in recordings. Recording engineers came to rely on the NS-10 as a benchmark.

Originally conceived as a domestic hi-fi speaker, the NS-10 was designed by Akira Nakamura and launched in 1978.
