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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 romwell on Thursday October 05, 2017 @08:21PM (#15413585)
>My argument is that they suck so much that they are now below average...

Ahahahaha no.

You can't convince me they're worse than cell phone, tablet, and laptop speakers, which is how an awful lot of music is being consumed.

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Re:The Yamaha NS10 Story – How a Hi-Fi Speaker Conquered the... by baldfat on Thursday October 05, 2017 @10:59PM (#15414133)
Those "speakers" are not meant to be a primary sound source, but I have heard some phones from HTC that sounded MUCH better than NS10.
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Re:The Yamaha NS10 Story – How a Hi-Fi Speaker Conquered the... by romwell on Friday October 06, 2017 @05:36PM (#15420666)
>Those "speakers" are not meant to be a primary sound source

What the manufacturer means doesn't matter, the real-life use does, and there they are often the primary sound source (if only by the virtue of being the only option available when one doesn't have their headphones handy, or, even more often, wants to share sound with someone).

>I have heard some phones from HTC that sounded MUCH better than NS10.

Maaaaybe. Now try something that's not a flagship, but what 98% of the people have.

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