[geoff]

On 24/07/2020 1:50 am, Scott Dorsey wrote:
In article , Trevor wrote:
On 21/07/2020 8:36 pm, Scott Dorsey wrote:
In article , Trevor wrote:
On 19/07/2020 1:25 am, John Williamson wrote:

If it still sounds good and the bass driver cone doesn't distort too
badly on the NS-10, then the mix is okay for any sensible listening system.

They were the archetypal cheap and nasty speaker.

Pretty nasty perhaps, but not really all that cheap considering.

We got ours free from the Yamaha rep.

Yeah, but some people actually paid for them. :-)

That totally floored me at the time, and I guess it still kind of does.
--scott



And they (and others) still leech off the concept by repeating or
emulating the cunning plan of the distinctive white bass drivers, made
highly visible in photos from many studio control rooms - most of those
buying them thinking that they were there because they sounded so GOOD !

geoff