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Buy Yamaha HS50M 5" Monitor SpeakerYamaha HS50M 5" Monitor Speaker Product Description:
- It has 5-inch White polypropylene cone
- It has 3/4-inch dome tweeter
- It has 70-watt biamplified power with low frequency is 45W at 4 ohms and high frequency is 25W at 8 ohms
- It has XLR and 1/4-inch connectors
Product Description
If Your Mixes Sound Good on These, They Sound Good on Anything. The new HS Series powered monitors were designed to be true studio reference monitors in the tradition of the famous NS10Ms. When choosing your next pair of near field reference monitors, remember it's not just important that they sound good; they have to be an honest reference for your mix. The new HS Series of reference monitors were designed to give you exceptionally flat response so you can really trust what you hear. That means that mixes that sound good on Yamaha HS speakers will sound good on anything. In fact, that's the ultimate test of a reference monitor. Even better than that, HS series speakers not only sound good, they look great, too. The HS Series is a two-way, internally powered speaker system designed to provide affordable, high quality reference monitoring for all types of recording and multimedia applications – home studios, computer-based music production, gaming systems, keyboards rigs and personal computer systems. All products are sold and packaged individually, making it easy to build flexible monitor setups and 5.1 systems. HS Series cabinets look as great as they sound. Enclosures are constructed of high-quality MDF material and a multiple layer finish that minimizes resonance. Design elements include a black finish and lighted Yamaha tuning fork logo. White polypropylene woofer cones recall the look of the classic Yamaha NS10M, and include low-damping rubber surrounds and full magnetic shielding.
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48 of 49 people found the following review helpful.
Outstanding near field monitor, at any price...
By Erik S. Johnson
Bear with me... This review requires a little story telling.I have a small, home-based recording studio, with modest mixing needs. However, when I (or anyone) needs a true mix-down, it has to be done with a pair of near-field monitors, and the monitors have to reflect the reality of the music, not some exaggeration of it. Headphones will not do, and many hours will be wasted on poor-quality monitors and the constant re-mixing that will occur due to poor sounding final product.So, having set that stage, I freely admit that I am now on my third and final set of monitors -- the Yamaha HS50Ms.My first experiment was on some M-Audio DX4 monitors, which lasted about 10 years. The DX4s are inexpensive but passable monitors as long as you don't push them too hard. Bass reproduction suffers with the 4" LFD, and the .75" HFD has a tendency to come off slightly harsh and sizzling. However, as my mixing needs have evolved over time, so has my taste for accuracy, and the DX4s were simply not cutting it anymore, so I replaced them earlier this year with a pair of Alesis M1 Active 520 USBs. The DX4s were recently sold to a friend for $30.My experience with the Alesis M1 Active 520 USBs was truly a mixed experience. My first impression on pulling the 520s out of the box was, "gee, there isn't much heft to these things". However, I was pleasantly surprised when firing them up. I was rewarded with ample sweet-spot and a very nice "smoothness" on the upper-end. However, the reward wasn't long-lasting as the volume knob quickly failed and Alesis couldn't supply me with a replacement part. The build quality of the Alesis monitors is truly touch-and-go, with cheap-feeling materials. After only two weeks, I had had enough of the scratchy and only occasionally working volume knob, and decided to go after what I had long dreamed of, a replacement to the legendary Yamaha NS-10s, which are no longer available. The 520s are going up for sale on a popular auction site next week, starting at $1.So, I ordered a pair of the (much more expensive) Yamaha HS50Ms, which arrived earlier this week. My first impression upon pulling them out of the box was the incredible build quality and heft of these speakers. They are built like a tank, very stout and heavy, and are oozing quality. Hook-up was pretty painless via the XLR connects, and then the moment of truth came... powering them up. When powering up these speakers, I was anticipating the typical loud POP, but was rewarded only with a glowing power light on the front panel and nothing but quiet. Outstanding! So, I fire up a couple of reference songs and am immediately blown away by the clarity and depth of the soundstage! The HS50Ms are a little brighter on the HFD than the Alesis, but much more solid on the LFD. Additionally, there is a plethora of adjustments and padding on the rear of the monitors which allow you to tune the speaker to your immediate environment. After about 15 minutes of adjustments to remove a little of the hot upper end, I finally settled on an excellent balance and sat back to enjoy the absolutely fantastic sound of these monitors.These HS50Ms are very, very accurate. Perhaps a little too accurate. I am now hearing things that I've never heard before in my fairly extensive library of recordings, including very minute sonic signatures from the various instruments (scratching of strings on a bass, subtle inflections in vocal performances, creaking of drum stools, some breathing where there used to be none). This makes for a very interesting rediscovery of your music! Additionally, I'm now finding that poor recordings (low resolution or poor mic placement) comes out "in your face" (it's amazing how many poorly executed recordings are out there). So, in some respects, these speakers are making it more difficult to listen to all music because they don't lie. But, for the cadre of great home-brew and commercial recordings that are out there, with proper mic placement, good engineering, and excellent mixing, there is NOTHING that will touch these monitors for accuracy in this size/form-factor range. Exceptionally smooth mid-to-high presentation (with the HFD padded -2 dB), and outstanding, almost haunting vocal representation (some examples below). Bass is strong and tight, but not too strong as I've heard from many other monitors. Plus, these monitors can get LOUD, so be careful!A few reference songs that are superbly recorded with excellent vocals and instrumentation -- monitor placement is about 36" apart tilted inward at 30 degrees with the listening position forming an isosceles triangle.Jane Monheit -- "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"Mindy Smith -- "One Moment More"Alison Krauss -- "The Lucky One"Allison Moorer -- "A Soft Place to Fall"So, to wrap it up, I have the distinct impression that I will be enjoying these monitors for years to come. I have finally found my modern NS-10 replacements. They are solidly built and are about as "quality" as any piece of equipment I've owned. Once out of the box and tuned for your environment, they have simply stellar presentation and sound stage which is about as transparent as I've ever heard (for example, when listening in the "sweet spot" to Mindy Smith's "One Moment More", you can almost "see" Mindy about 2' in front of you, and her articulation is absolutely stunning through these monitors). Just have real expectation about what you are going to get with the HS50Ms. You will find dissatisfaction with some of your library as the music will now be revealed and you will hear both the good and bad in the recordings. But, this will make you appreciate even more those exemplary recordings which are so well presented by these exceptional monitors.I'd give the HS50Ms six stars if I could.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
Outstanding & Serious Sounding Small Studio Monitor
By Mr. John J. Noel
The Yamaha HS-50M studio monitors are excellent tools to listen to and work with. On audition at Digital Village I compared them to other small studio monitors by having a CD with acoustic guitar music fed through them. The bite and colour of strings through the Yamahas were reproduced very well. That was enough, I bought them.I have been using these monitors for almost a year now. They have a fine combination of qualities, and are very serious sounding; certianly not for children, or to play about with. They are for solid work, research, and of course, monitoring.The HS-50M's are very clean sounding, and cymbals have got a natural shimmer and ring. Front and back depth is good, and stereo images shift as necessary. Vocals have a realness and closeness as they should. You can hear the woody resonance of certain guitar notes resound through your chest, and the dynamic range and dynamic capability of these speakers are excellent. They also can be amazingly subtle and gentle.When testing a wide range of music and sound sources they very clearly make it known their origin, be it a live TV studio or compressed artificial recording.But the overall beauty of these Yamaha's is because they are so transparent, when listening to old favourites they can bring tears to your eyes, as they accurately portray an era, atmosphere, and emotion.Highly Recommended.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Great little speaker.
By K. Patterson
These speakers, are really nice, I was surprised at their weight, they are built pretty solid. They have a high end I've never experienced in this range. They put your music under a microscope and will make things sound bad.... these are not listening speakers. Many complain about the bass, but you have to realize, these are 5" monitors, you can't expect much from them, however, it is still there, just not ear shattering. [or just buy a subwoofer]. They have a EQ on the back for adjustments, and a 'Room Control' switch, which according to the manual, you can use to counter the effects of putting them near a wall or in a corner. I find myself never falling out of the sweet spot, its quite wide. Also, I wanted to mention that you can put TS cables in the TRS input, no issue. The speakers don't pop when you turn them on, you just get a pleasant light. They have little fences in front of the tweeter, which the absence of it and a small child were the death of a older set of passive monitors.PROS-Built like a tank-Awesome sound all the way from 80hz and up. (they still cover a little farther down)-Point out little details.-Adequate bass for 5" monitors-EQ-Room Control-Big sweet spot-Good bi-amped sound-Never get to hot.-Don't make that annoying pop sound.-Protected Tweeter.Neutral-Rather heavy for 5" monitors.
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