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anonymous 1 November 2004

Any suggestions? The NS10 was, to me, a horribe sounding speaker that did an excellant job for mid range mixing. But they dont make em any more. Has anyone got any suggestion as a replacement. So far I have heard of the new Yamaha MSP5 and the Triple P Pyramid. Any others worth mentioning?

Cheers!

Paul Blenn

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-=_CZ_=- Mon, 11/15/2004 - 13:20

I recently went on a listening expedition to see what was happening in the world of nearfields, and to see what might augment my NS-10s...

I was a little bit apalled by what I heard: Lots of powered two way systems that had hyped one-note bass and didn't image at all.

I decided to go in the other direction. I put together two different systems, each using a single fostex 'full-range' driver. One a 5"(FE127) and one 6.5" (FE166). These are largely flat from 70-20k on the 5" system and 50-22k on the 6.5" system. The larger driver beams a bit in the HF as you would expect. But for mixing this is a good thing. The imaging is great and there is not a trace of 'phaseyness' from console reflections, or crossover (there is no crossover!). After mixing several projects on these I went back to my NS-10s for a moment. Now, I love NS-10s, but for the first time I noticed the phase hole in the crossover, and a 'comb-filtery' vagueness of the center image.

I find the full range systems to be a valuable mixing tool, if you think the snare is a little on top of the vocal, it is. On many of the popular powered 2-way systems there is a phase/frequency hole right where the attack of the snare is, causing the producer to ask you to turn it up too much! The proof came when I took a project to Sterling for mastering. The engineer was exstatic about the balances -particularly in the midrange- noting that everyone is overly concerned with the bottom end and the top end, which he felt were easily dealt with in mastering.

-CZ

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