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A comment on The Yamaha NS10 Story – How a Hi-Fi Speaker Conquered the Studio World (2008). Parent comment

Re:The Yamaha NS10 Story – How a Hi-Fi Speaker Conquered the... by 4ad on Thursday October 05, 2017 @07:25PM (#15413334)
> roblem is EVERY speaker made the last 20 years is better than these speakers.

I disagree heres.

"Real" speakers might be better, but most people listen to music on crappy laptop speakers or crappy bluetooth 1-inch mono speakers. The quality of the average sound reproduction device has been getting worse the last 20 years.

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Re:The Yamaha NS10 Story – How a Hi-Fi Speaker Conquered the... by KozmoNau7 on Friday October 06, 2017 @05:10AM (#15415416)
On the other hand, there are some seriously impressive bluetooth speakers out there now.

I just picked up an Audio Pro Addon T3 on sale the other day. It's obviously no match for my room corrected studio monitor setup with dual 12" subs in regards to sub bass, detail and overall SPL, but I'm absolutely astounded at how much sound (and bass!) they've managed to cram into a speaker that's smaller than a sixpack and plays for ~30 hours on battery.

They're probably doing a ton of DSP and probably some missing fundamental bass trickery, but it does sound really convincing.

I wouldn't buy any bluetooth speaker much smaller than this one, though. You can only cheat physics so far.

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