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I have a pair of HS8's. They have provided me with a good and cheap starting set of listening gear for my amateur music endeavours. I know there is a lot of bet

by fb03 9y ago

I have a pair of HS8's. They have provided me with a good and cheap starting set of listening gear for my amateur music endeavours. I know there is a lot of better gear out there but for starting out, Yamaha gear is usually pretty on point. I wish I could test a pair of NS10's against the HS8's.

KozmoNau7 9y ago
It doesn't really matter which product segment you're looking at, it's really hard to go wrong with Yamaha. They may not be the outright best value for money when it comes to features and buzzwords, and they certainly don't have the cachet of more boutique brands, but they always deliver a solid good quality product. As an example from a completely different segment, I used to ride a Yamaha XT660X motorcycle. If you read reviews and bike forums, sports bike riders would decry it for being too slow, dual-sport riders would decry it for not being a BMW GS-series, and supermoto riders would decry it for being too heavy. None of that mattered, because I found it to be the most enjoyable bike I've ever ridden. Just enough power to get into trouble, great handling to get you out of trouble again, extremely comfortable and not so light that every gust of wind would blow you around. It may not be the best at anything, but it absolutely excels as an all-round bike for ordinary people like me, and during the time I had it, it was completely flawless, no issues at all (some people would find that boring, I guess).
- fb03 9y ago
  You are absolutely right about Yamaha, man! Dang, even their Flutes are great. My HS8's are interfaced via a Yamaha AG06 sound card btw. balanced outputs perfect for the monitors, stable as fuck and also I can get pretty decent latency with it (about 2-3ms @ 44100hz on a 9 year old core i7!!) o/
  - KozmoNau7 9y ago
    > Yamaha AG06 The little USB mixer? I love those things, I just wish I could get one with more stereo inputs, a single RCA stereo in and one aux in (with no volume adjustment) isn't really enough. Though I guess an external RCA switch could take care of that.

by fb03 9y ago

KozmoNau7 9y ago

It doesn't really matter which product segment you're looking at, it's really hard to go wrong with Yamaha. They may not be the outright best value for money when it comes to features and buzzwords, and they certainly don't have the cachet of more boutique brands, but they always deliver a solid good quality product. As an example from a completely different segment, I used to ride a Yamaha XT660X motorcycle. If you read reviews and bike forums, sports bike riders would decry it for being too slow, dual-sport riders would decry it for not being a BMW GS-series, and supermoto riders would decry it for being too heavy. None of that mattered, because I found it to be the most enjoyable bike I've ever ridden. Just enough power to get into trouble, great handling to get you out of trouble again, extremely comfortable and not so light that every gust of wind would blow you around. It may not be the best at anything, but it absolutely excels as an all-round bike for ordinary people like me, and during the time I had it, it was completely flawless, no issues at all (some people would find that boring, I guess).

fb03 9y ago
You are absolutely right about Yamaha, man! Dang, even their Flutes are great. My HS8's are interfaced via a Yamaha AG06 sound card btw. balanced outputs perfect for the monitors, stable as fuck and also I can get pretty decent latency with it (about 2-3ms @ 44100hz on a 9 year old core i7!!) o/
- KozmoNau7 9y ago
  > Yamaha AG06 The little USB mixer? I love those things, I just wish I could get one with more stereo inputs, a single RCA stereo in and one aux in (with no volume adjustment) isn't really enough. Though I guess an external RCA switch could take care of that.