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Why did you phrase that as a question? The frequency response of the HS series was made to be the same as the NS10s.

• SeanLuke 4y ago
  But their time-domain response is radically different, and that's what mattered.
  • steponlego 4y ago
    Sauce?
    • deleted 4y ago
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    • SeanLuke 4y ago
      The new Yamahas are ported and come with soft plastic cones. Their time domain response will be very different from NS10s, no matter how white Yamaha makes the cones look. [They also sound much better].
    • datpiff 4y ago
      The article...
      • steponlego 4y ago
        Read the article, didn't say that. Sounds made up to me.
• klodolph 4y ago
  Frequency response is easy to measure but it’s only a small part of the picture. If we only cared about frequency response, we would be able to EQ out the differences between speakers. For the record, we can’t do that. Different speakers have different performance off-axis, different time domain response, and that’s not considering minor effects like distortion. The off-axis response is important because people don’t sit exactly in the “sweet spot” on-axis, and because the off-axis response is heard indirectly after it reflects off surfaces in the room. There’s a lot of science here and on-axis frequency response is only one thing people measure when designing speaker systems.
• jlarcombe 4y ago
  I phrased it as a question because I didn't know the answer and didn't have time to Google it straight away, but I recalled that they were ported from a review I read several years ago. I had the impression they were of a completely different character to the NS10. As I say, I've never heard them myself, so happy to be corrected!