One of my beloved NS-10‘s took a nose dive off a speaker stand today…. and everything survived without a single change in sound (or at least as far as my ears can tell from listening to a lot of different music for the last hour).
And so, I bow down to whomever at Yamaha pushed for putting that extra-strength screen over the tweeter. Dude, honestly, you saved me today. Cheers to the screen-over-the-tweeter guy decades ago at Yamaha.
It was sort of surreal. I saw it topple… and the WHAAMMM! it made as the tweeter hit full force onto the desk (also OK with a quick pot replacement) was probably the most instantaneous very loud to very quiet moment ever in the history of this space. I didn’t even move because my brain didn’t really register what happened. One of these old NS-10’s… I’ve had for nearly 20 years may had just plummeted to its death (suicide by bad song? we may never know). ;) I haven’t known most of my friends that long!
But that screen…. wow. A lot of luck, of course. It whacked onto the screen, flipped, then another drop to the floor which it did perfectly on it’s back, so thank you audio gods for that. The screen was shmooshed… smooshed… whatever, but with a hook and a lot of patient pulling it’s mostly back to normal with just a few asymmetrical reminders of the fall. So far I can’t hear any damage to the NS-10 tweeter at all… amazed.
So again, whoever so long ago decided it would be a good idea to put this burly screen over the tweeter on an NS-10 studio monitor: cheers to you, my friend. You just saved a very good friend of mine. ;) Thank you, thank you, thank you “let’s put a really rugged screen over the tweeter on the NS-10s” guy. Saved me a lot of melancholy and infinite sadness today.
