any advice on the best power amp for bringing out the best in ns10's if im on a budget.
thanks

If your budget is only $30 then this thing is cool.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...lance&n=172282

Please let us know what your budget is. Are you looking at a solution under $100 or $1000?

300-500 range.
also everyone recommends the bryston 4b but thats a little more.

I myself was looking for a decent priced amp for my NS10s a while ago and someone suggested the hafler p3500. I never got it. (my ns10s still sitting in the corner)

Try one of these:



http://search-desc.ebay.com/Stewart-...ofocusZunknown



A great option to a Bryston on NS10's.

I know some guys that've had a nice experience with Bryston amps, the 2B seems familiar. They go pretty cheap on ebay these days.

Yamaha monitors need a Yanaha AMP

makes a big difference ......... I have no idea why but you won't be disappointed

The NS-10 Hafler P3000 combo is not too bad on a budget. A little better would be a used Bryston 4B, a lot better is a Bryston 4B$$T (that's SST to be clear).

a used Yamaha P2500 might be in that price range.

ben

I second the Bryston 2B if you can find one. I bought one off a mate for about $500 and was just the ticket to make my NS10's come alive. I also run a cheap consumer sub with them...... I like it!
He's been begging me to sell it back to him ever since. Seems the Alesis "reference" amplifier he replaced it with has made his NS10's unuseable.

I'm using a Crown DC 300 (I have the original 1967 model), paid $250 on eBay, to power my NS-10's.

Here's a dumb question for you guys, since I"m in the same boat (my amp that's driving my NS-10's is awful, so I'm looking into either a Bryston 2b or 4b to replace them)..what's the easiest setup to control the volume of the power amp externally? What do most people do? On my amp, it's just a consumer line amp, so it has a big volume knob on it, but there is none for the Brystons. I'm trying to avoid buying an external mixer (unless I can bypass it completely and just use it to function as a volume knob)

if i understand you correctly you probably want something like a Mackie Big knob
or a rack mounted solution would be the Presonus central station....

The central station also gives you some idea of metering as well....

Here's a very good match for NS-10's...




http://cgi.ebay.com/VINTAGE-STUDER-A...QQcmdZViewItem

That is what I did, and the match pretty well together. Realize that these are not my main monitors however, but are a reference pair when mixing.