| I've worked with a pair of Dynaudio BM 15s with a sub for years, and I have a pair of Yammie HS 80's at home (no sub). I have to say the HS 80's are a LOT closer to BM 15's than Yamaha NS10's. I'd personally much rather mix on the HS80's than NS10's, and I have found the HS80's easy to "learn".
KRKs are also great monitors, very predictable results and quiet easy to "learn".
Personally I think that the HS80's are styled similarly to Dyn BM15's and the HS50's are styled on BM6's. The Dyn users are evenly divided on which they prefer to mix on, the larger or smaller boxes. I reckon it's related to the size of the room you are working in.
The reason why a lot of people go for the new powered yammies is that they are a better monitor than NS10s. and getting drivers for NS10's is getting to be really difficult and expensive. I definitely wouldn't propose anyone going out of their way to take that route.
That's my 2 cents worth.
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