aren't they ported though, and thus completely different to the NS10s and none of the features that made them such a useful tool? i've never actually heard any of the HS series though.
Frequency response is easy to measure but it’s only a small part of the picture. If we only cared about frequency response, we would be able to EQ out the differences between speakers. For the record, we can’t do that. Different speakers have different performance off-axis, different time domain response, and that’s not considering minor effects like distortion. The off-axis response is important because people don’t sit exactly in the “sweet spot” on-axis, and because the off-axis response is heard indirectly after it reflects off surfaces in the room.
There’s a lot of science here and on-axis frequency response is only one thing people measure when designing speaker systems.
I phrased it as a question because I didn't know the answer and didn't have time to Google it straight away, but I recalled that they were ported from a review I read several years ago. I had the impression they were of a completely different character to the NS10. As I say, I've never heard them myself, so happy to be corrected!
The new Yamahas are ported and come with soft plastic cones. Their time domain response will be very different from NS10s, no matter how white Yamaha makes the cones look. [They also sound much better].
