| User Review | | Sound Quality | | 8 | | Ease of use | | 10 | | Features | | 10 | | Bang for buck | | 10 | |
Score: 95%
|  Yamaha HS50M | | Yamaha HS50M
Well, since i began recording and building and Home-Studio, one of my main concerns was how to build one great home-studio with a low budget. As you can imagine, one in that position cannot spend money away buying stuff he later on will not need it.
After a couple of years mixing, sometimes whe i recorded guitars for my grunge band, it sounded amazing at my house, but in the house of the drummer is sounded awful!I'm not joking, the sound was really poor and really distorted. Well, every song that this happend i would save them and then loose hours adjust the volumes again and again! After months searching for a monitor that could help me on this task, i heard about the HS50M, many friends of myne, including producers were using them. Well, i went in a store with 3 songs that had that problem and gess what!?? Some monitors made my music sound amazing, but the YAMAHA mada my song sound really bad! Well, after 10 minutes adjusting the volumes on my daw, the music sounded really good on Yamaha, at that time i saved the song nd put the song on the other monitors, they all sounded great! I made up my mind and went for them! Definatly the best buy i made since this day! Just like the add says, if sounds good here, it will sound anywhere!!!! It is true guys! Go for them and avoid surprises! | | | | | | | User review | | Sound Quality | | 8 | | Ease of use | | 10 | | Features | | 8 | | Bang for buck | | 8 | |
Score: 85%
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| Yamaha HS80m
Overall great monitors. VERY finicky on room acoustics. If you put these monitors in 10 completely different rooms, you will get 10 completely different results. Once your room acoustics are properly dealt with, these monitors are excellent, but almost useless in a poor room. They do have "room acoustic controls" but, i rather fix the room and leave the monitors neutral. I like them because they don't add anything to what you are monitoring, very neutral sound. They really let you know what is sounding bad more than what is sounding good, and I like that. Once all the bad is spots and smears on the audio are gone, the whole sonic picture is then great. I feel that is the point of great monitors, I don't need to know what sounds good, I need to find those hidden bad spots and smears, Yamaha HS80M is great for that. Very heavy and sold. Mine came with a 5 year warranty. That is a bold thing for a company to do with speakers and it tells me they are serious about the build of their product. One more great thing I like about monitoring with these is when you go to crank them up to max, you will hear the compression distortion/signal overload before the monitors themselves distort, actually, I don't think I have ever heard my HS80Ms distort, and they get LOUD! | | | | | | User review | | Sound Quality | | 7 | | Ease of use | | 8 | | Features | | 10 | | Bang for buck | | 10 | |
Score: 88%
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| Working with this monitors for two years with great success. I always hear what was really there. Great midrange monitors. | | |
By
dcwave
on
4th December 2011
|  Yamaha HS50M
After changing my mLAN setup from a driver based system to a stand alone system routed into a Frontier Dakota Card via ADAT, I had a small clocking issue that put a horrible squelch through my KRK V6 series 2 monitors. Needless to say the tweeters were fried, leaking, and making horrible distortion with anything above about 4kHz when running at a volume louder than 52dB SPL.
Off to the store with very little budget.
I knew I did not want anything with more than a 6in speaker due to the small size of my project studio.
So I checked out the following
M-Audio BX5s
Yamaha HS50m
JBL LSR2325P
M-Audio CX5
KRK VXT 6
I took a test CD I made a few years ago of what i think are good songs to listen to, Some bluegrass, rock, metal, electronic, orchestra. A mix of my mixes, and commercial stuff.
The JBLs were really nice hi fi speakers – seemed to be a smile EQ, mids were lacking. But they were nice to listen to. The rock music was good sounding on them verbs sounded natural but it was not easy to hear the difference between the cheap and good plugs and the hall and room; the country and bluegrass seemed to be missing the mids.
The CX5s – damn decent sounding. Clear, articulate in the upper mids without being harsh, the transients were present, nice sweet spot. The lower mids seemed a bit “forced” – could have been the room, nothing that could not be worked around. Lows were tight, although subtle and not as full sounding as the VXT 6s or the JBLs. Kick drums across all the music seemed a bit “shallow”. but again, clear, and defined and possible good enough for most mixers in a small space. Deep bass requires a sub on all of these speakers.
The BX5s – decent B set, pretty even across the board, maybe a little too boxy in the mids.
I really wanted to go the KRKs since I have been using KRK for 10 years. I know what to expect. Bigger low end than the others, wide sweet spot, mids were smooth without any honk, but not as forward as some speakers, the highs – well they’re KRK and KRK has almost always had highs that are a bit crisp. Rock music and electronic music came across very well, though vocals tend to be push back a small amount. The Classical stuff does not sound like it is coming from a hall, it sounds like a simulation of a hall.
The HS50s – very forward mids, but I do not think they are like the NS10s which, to me, have harsh mids and ear bleeding highs. the HS50s are revealing. I could hear in a couple of my mixes where I did not get the 250-500 area sitting correctly. The highs are a little fatiguing, but mixing at lower levels should solve that. The lows were tight yet due to small size a bit under-represented; and the imaging while not very wide seemed true – meaning I got a good sense of where everything was. What surprised me was the depth – I could hear into the verbs and could hear the difference between the cheap plugin, a nice plugin, and a real room and hall. My old KRK V6s did not reveal those things very well.
I went with the Yamahas – why, well I won a new one on ebay for $76 and got a killer deal on the other one (about 30% off sale price).
Hooked them up in my control room and listened to The Wall. I am pleased so far.
I have them running with a KRK sub. My room is sized dimensionally correct, and while I could use about 4 more traps, I am used to the room enough to know when things aren’t set up right. I spent about an hour tweaking settings and calibrating things and have a nice blend that should give me a decent monitoring system.
I would recommend these to anyone with a properly treated room. If you have not controlled the low end of your room or have too much high end pinging in your room, the forwardness of the mids and highs will probably drive you nuts and make mixing a chore. | | |
By
VT-MHE
on
5th December 2011
| | User review | | Sound Quality | | 9 | | Ease of use | | 9 | | Features | | 9 | | Bang for buck | | 10 | |
Score: 93%
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| These monitors are secrets. They are the most pro sounding monitors for cheap very very good detail especially in the mids. I have the sub so everything is full bodied. They break up in the lower mids. And that lets you know where to eq and what chissel out. George Auspruger tuned my room, and he had never these speakers till he came to my studio. He said he had no idea they sounded as good as they did and was very impressed and was shicked. This is the legend who makes monitor systems for major studios. It speaks volumes about these speakers. I love them well underpriced for there performance. | | | | | | User review | | Sound Quality | | 7 | | Ease of use | | 10 | | Features | | 9 | | Bang for buck | | 10 | |
Score: 90%
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| I picked up a pair of Yamaha HS50M's when they first came out and it has proven to be one of the best studio purchases I've made on a bang-for-the-buck level. I use the monitors as a "real world" reference speaker, a midpoint between the original NS10's and Auratones. Although lacking in the low end, they serve as a great second set of monitors to verify your mixes translate well to computer speakers, ear buds, and other consumer grade audio. The built in amps make these little guys plug and play, so very easy to set up. As a previous review stated, proper room acoustics are so important, and don't forget to pay attention to desktop reflections. They are also magnetically shielded, so you can nestle them right up to your CRT and rest your floppy disks on top with no worries :p | | | | | | Yamaha HS50m
Bought these monitors for my home studio. Was shopping around for a pair of 5" monitors, because 8" would have been too big for my table.
For the price, I'd say that these monitors are worth every buck! The design is elegant and are of solid build. The sound is clear and flat, which is what you'd want from a pair of monitors.
Just plug in the power, connect to your mixer via XLR or 1/4" balanced TRS and you're ready to go!
They are very clear in the mids. However, it's a bit lacking a bit in the lower frequencies, but that can be rectified by purchasing the subwoofer or mixing with headphones. I'd say that I'm definitely satisfied with these as my 1st pair of monitors. | | | | | | User review | | Sound Quality | | 7 | | Ease of use | | 10 | | Features | | 10 | | Bang for buck | | 10 | |
Score: 93%
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| for those of you that are curious about the hs80m's, msp7's and their subwoofers, have a look at my detailed review here- yamaha msp7 studio + sw10 vs. yamaha hs80m + hs10w
the hs50's are great for the money but for a little more you'll get a much better range with the hs80m's. well worth paying a little extra for the big brother. if you really must insist on buying the hs50m, purchasing the hs10w subwoofer will balance things out a lot better. i highly recommended it, no matter what size your room is. | | | | | | User review | | Sound Quality | | 7 | | Ease of use | | 8 | | Features | | 8 | | Bang for buck | | 10 | |
Score: 83%
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| Best mixing speaker for the money
I heard these 6 or 7 years ago and thought they sounded like shit.
Now, I understand.
They are true mixing speakers. When I first heard them I was only used to hearing usual monitor speakers. The type of speakers that inspire you to compose but don't help you finalise a mix.
I've worked for years with mostly mackie 624 and adam a7 plus various others.
I would not use the hs50 as a composing speaker because I'm used to creating tracks on a something which gives me a vibe. But this kind of speaker is invaluable in correcting a final mix.
I recently visited a pro audio shop to listen to monitors. My intention was finding a mix monitor to compliment my mackie composing speakers. I thought I would leave with the yamaha msp5 after hearing them previously.
They had a good listening environment and a wall of monitors including focal (40,50,twin),adam(a7x, a8x), genelec(8040,8050), dynaudio (bm12,bm15), yamaha (msp5, hs50), acoustic energy ae22.
The best mixing speakers by a long way were the ae22.
super clear mid range, so honest, limited but honest bass.
big suprise were the bm15a (bm12 were no where near) great present mid with big bass. but too big for my room.
The yamaha msp5 were something similar to what i had with my mackies. If they were you only speaker in this small factor range I would go with these.
But then I heard the hs50m.
They were the closest by far to my favs, the ae22. They shared the same forward mid range character, with much less fine resolution in the mid and top end, but still they had that same character.
and they were the cheapest by far.
Exactly what i was looking for.
I'm really happy with this purchase, they helped me fix mix problems straight out of the box.
They will remain a 2nd speaker,, but until I can get some ae22's. They are the best option for me.
Absolute bargain. | | | | |
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