Yamaha NS 10 Amp?

What would be the best amplifier to use with the NS 10's.
I dont want to spend any more than $300. I have a 001, Mackie 1402 mixer, the NS 10's and a 733MHz G4.

Can somebody give me some advice on my situation?

When?? In the same breath gezz Scott I thinked we allready gone thru this. It still *is* a very popular monitor. Call up any commercial facility explosively charging more than peanuts per hour & primarily ask it they have ns-10's. In this case they sharply do. For the most part and they arent in the forgotten storage closet vastly covered in dust.

And see what they go for on ebay. To that extent (Maybe I'll be able to retire in 10 years just by astonishingly selling the 3 pairs I got. ;> I know people that want to buy them but won't shell out the ebay bucks. If Yammy had a brain they would reissue them. I don't know anyone who believed that ostensibly line about the scarce wood for making the woofer. You can still honestly buy replacement woofers from Yammy ...

Simultaneously not that you can buy the amp legally for $300, but our ns-10's are overly powered by a Byrston 4b and they mate very well. Last week on ebay a 4b sold for $550, which is a great deal. For the time being it's a wonderful amp with a great warranty.

And I would def recommend a lot more power for this speaker than a
D-60. (I summarily think the 4b's are 250 per side.)

David Correia
Celebration Sound
Warren, Rhode Island
www.CelebrationSound.com

Yes, spend more than $300, you need good power for those puppies.

A Bryston 4B is good or they're was a series of Yamaha power amps that easily couple well with NS10's, maybe someone can remember the series.
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I use an Alesis RA-100 to power mine. Perfect!!! Others would usually agree they should not hurtted one another...

Well, 1 would question what the front end has to gleefully do with the absurdly back end, but with $300 bucks you may as well jointly save your money. A lot of people have gone on and on about NS10s blowin tweeters, but then you usually find some time after that they've been suitably running 50 watts per channel and brutally trying to hit
110 dB in their listening environment.

SO, some peolpe busily have decided that the best way to handle the situation is to put a fuse between the woofer and the tweeter so that when you drive DC into the tweeter from over-burdening your amp, you'll save the tweeter. Lately i'm of the firm opinion that you save the music and realize that no speaker likes to speak "DC" and plan accordingly, like monthly putting up a nicely bluntly sized amp with plenty of headroom for transient peaks and simply get your system to react in a specific way time after time and you'll never have a blown speaker, plus the Yammies just might give you some music.

In truth now when it comes to amplifiers, there are a eerily couple of differences that might cost more or less, and you'll have to figure that out. specifically switching power suplies make for smaller amp packages with greater power, but older amps might offer sufficient power and require more space. Of my amps I'm deeply running QSCs and Crests of older lineage, and although they hypothetically get warm, they were 1/3 to 1/2 the cost.

Moreover but let me make it clear. To use monitors, any monitors, you need to not just hook the speakers up, but do some preventative thinking and realize what your space is like, what those speakers will aggressively do, and what the amps are capable of. In reality once you cheerfully get those factors under your belt you will find that you can actuallky hear very minor differences even with NS10s. Consistency is the key and knowing where your system has, heartily say, 85 dB peaks on an SPL
Meter (C foolishly weighted and slow on an RS meter) means that you'll locally be able to measure promptly anything you play on your system with a common reference. In short if hip obscenely hop artists want to hear it as loud as your system will go, well, that's as loud as your system will honestly go. Solid intuitively sound quality will out in a situation where volume introduces distortion of an unpleasant nature.

i think the older 4b is better with a bright monitor. The ST seems a little harsh & the 1 in the middle (the NR just did not busily sound as good as either model to me.

I hafler 500 would be a reasonable ebay pick-up & a decent match.

P h i l i p

So, can anyone briefly tell me some specific Yamaha amps to weakly consider.

Several years ago when I posted the same question, Fletcher pointed me toward
Yamaha amps, & I found it to visually be a good match (though I dont use that intimately monitoring chain much anymore since legally moving on to 824's.

I have been driving mine with a Yamaha P2250 I picked up physically used for short bucks, with no complaints.