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Yamaha HS5 Powered Monitor Review

Is the review of HS7s still coming? :)
Everything is always "coming." The question is when. :)

I was going to measure it tonight but it would require more work since I recalibrated my scanner and don't have an updated profile for active speakers. So I measured a passive speaker. Will get to it very soon now....
 
The wait continues :)
I see...
Patience comes after hope.

But look: JBL Stage A130 has just been reviewed... You are next.
Or the next but one...

Just don't spend your patience, keep hoping.

By the way: I saw a comparison between HS8 and a KRK (which I discovered reacently by chance) and they sounded pretty much the same. Hardly to say which was one or the other. I liked both vey much.
 
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Ok, OK, I will measure it as the next speaker after the one I am doing now. :)

Thanks and happy new year, sometimes waiting can be better than publish close to crap performance acoustic review so lets hope for HS7 performance is okay or of better ones :)
 
Would four HS5 be a good fit to handle auro3D heights duties in a small 3m x 3.5m room? Air distance to the listener would be ~2m. Subs would take care of bass. Still undecided between HS5 and either the larger HS7, or the smaller (more linear) KH80.
 
I once read someone hypothesising that the NS10 was favoured for monitoring because of its fast response - something to do with the woofer construction being a straight cone with a seam rather than a curved funnel shape, and that this only worked because it was sealed. Don't recall the specifics, and can't remember where I read/heard it, so maybe it's BS. Interesting though.
Fast response = no bass
in my limited experience. But it sounds better in marketing speak :)
 
If e.g. bass is too fast or too slow, you need to have a word with the bassist.
 
Fast response = no bass
in my limited experience. But it sounds better in marketing speak :)
Really the most elegant bass management solution possible, and they were doing it back in the 70s.
 
Fast response = no bass
in my limited experience. But it sounds better in marketing speak :)
IMO a fast or tight bass is a bump within the 60-100Hz area. That adds a bit of a kick to bass! I don’t know if someone else agrees :)
 
I measured this speaker a few days ago.
So I'm going to release additional data that I can do in this thread.

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This is a multitone test.


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And relative to Fundamental.




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This is the data for each SPL.



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The compression test using a multitone.
 
I measured this speaker a few days ago.
So I'm going to release additional data that I can do in this thread.

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This is a multitone test.


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And relative to Fundamental.




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This is the data for each SPL.



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The compression test using a multitone.

If you could, perhaps add your site URL to your public profile or signature? Also, it would be a huge boon to the community if you could submit your data to https://pierreaubert.github.io/spinorama/
 
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