I assume you mean a Bryston 4b? I hadn't noticed anything really nice about
that combo, but I will say that a properly powered NS10 system will NOT blow
tweeters when given clean power, unless one just goes stupid for a minute
(well, seconds). The other concept of using fuses inline just simply
doesn't seem like a solution to me. More like a prophylactic prevention
whilst still supplying a crappy sound out of the speakers. The Bryston
certainly didn't do that! g

And I'd not mind NS10s in a reasonably large control room where they
physically are too small in output to acoustically couple with anything. In
a small control room, because of the obvious room problems, NS10s seem to
accentuate those problems and are, regardless of amp, fatiguing. The stupid
thing on Yammie's part is they had a darned good replacement in the MSR10s,
but they got dropped way to fast to move into the mainstream as a decent
sounding upgrade. Even though I have some nice JBLs for mixing, I kinda
wish I'd gone ahead and bought the MSR10s when I had the chance. Not as
spitty, handle power pretty well, less fatiguing even in smaller control
rooms, and had better bottom end coverage whilst still providing that mids
heavy sound that helped get so many good mixes done.

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Roger W. Norman
SirMusic Studio
http://blogs.salon.com/0004478/
"david" wrote in message
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In article , Roger W. Norman
wrote:

Plenty of top line mixers still use them for checks, but
not for the initial mixing. Too fatiguing these days to use 100% of the
time.



I know plenty of folks that still mix with them. Just last month we had
an LA "kid" - early 30's - doing some work here for a major label, and
he loves ns-10's. (It ain't all just us old farts.) And you may be
surprised to learn that with a 4b they are not fatiguing at all.

When you mix you don't wanna spend 100% of the time listening to one
anything. That's why there are small monitors and big ones in real
control rooms. You have to find a mix that works on both. You'll never
know for sure if it does until you listen to both.

When people in our recording classes ask well which is right, the large
or the small monitors?? I tell them their answer is halfway between
them both.

But the mix still has to work on both of them.





David Correia
Celebration Sound
Warren, Rhode Island


www.CelebrationSound.com