| User Review | | Sound Quality | | 4 | | Ease of use | | 5 | | Features | | 5 | | Bang for buck | | 5 |
Overall:  4.75 |  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! | | | | | | | Sound Quality | | 4 | | Ease of use | | 5 | | Features | | 4 | | Bang for buck | | 4 |
Overall:  4.25 | | 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! | | | | | | Sound Quality | | 4 | | Ease of use | | 4 | | Features | | 5 | | Bang for buck | | 5 | |
Overall: 4.5 | | Working with this monitors for two years with great success. I always hear what was really there. Great midrange monitors. | | |
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5th December 2011
| | Sound Quality | | 4 | | Ease of use | | 4 | | Features | | 4 | | Bang for buck | | 5 | |
Overall: 4.25 | | These monitors are secrets. (HS80m) 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 shocked. 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. | | | | | | Sound Quality | | 4 | | Ease of use | | 5 | | Features | | 4 | | Bang for buck | | 5 | |
Overall: 4.5 | | 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. | | | | | | Sound Quality | | 4 | | Ease of use | | 5 | | Features | | 5 | | Bang for buck | | 5 | |
Overall: 4.75 | | for those of you that are curious about the hs80m's, msp7's and their subwoofers, have a look at my detailed review here- http://www.gearslutz.com/board/revie...80m-hs10w.html
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. | | | | | | Sound Quality | | 4 | | Ease of use | | 4 | | Features | | 4 | | Bang for buck | | 5 | |
Overall: 4.25 | | 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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