Well, new-old monitor's/amp day...
Don't know if I mentioned it before but I have a small-time hobby of collecting old consumer-grade stereo amps/speakers from the 80's /early 90's for cheap.. (got about 7 now) 2 being used the others in storage ( I rotate them )
And I was lucky enough to just pick up an old Yamaha A-500 'natural sound' amp from the early 80's in what looks & sounds like pretty much 'mint' condition. These were awesome lively amps with a great punchy, musical, highly detailed and balanced sound. My Dad used to have one way back when and I always loved the way it sounded. Also (and more importantly) a pair of pretty rare Yamaha NS-20M speakers (which ..like the better known NS-10's) make great studio monitors..some say better than the smaller NS-10's where the highs tend to be a bit sharp.
Hooked it up and the thing sounds absolutely fantastic (not to mention ear splittingly loud!). Nothing manufactured today comes anywhere near this sound quality for the price (or 3-4-5 times the price)
Gonna hook it up to my audio interface's 1/4" speaker outputs (for which I just ordered a pair of 1/4" to RCA convertor cables ..hopefully arriving in a day or two) & then run the amp into the NS-20 speaker's to use as monitors ..like so. This will also beat any FRFR speaker setup to run my Mooer GE300 modeler (with IR's) into..
And for what it's worth a youtube demo (not mine) just to give you some idea of how awesome these sound..
Don't know if I mentioned it before but I have a small-time hobby of collecting old consumer-grade stereo amps/speakers from the 80's /early 90's for cheap.. (got about 7 now) 2 being used the others in storage ( I rotate them )
And I was lucky enough to just pick up an old Yamaha A-500 'natural sound' amp from the early 80's in what looks & sounds like pretty much 'mint' condition. These were awesome lively amps with a great punchy, musical, highly detailed and balanced sound. My Dad used to have one way back when and I always loved the way it sounded. Also (and more importantly) a pair of pretty rare Yamaha NS-20M speakers (which ..like the better known NS-10's) make great studio monitors..some say better than the smaller NS-10's where the highs tend to be a bit sharp.
Hooked it up and the thing sounds absolutely fantastic (not to mention ear splittingly loud!). Nothing manufactured today comes anywhere near this sound quality for the price (or 3-4-5 times the price)
Gonna hook it up to my audio interface's 1/4" speaker outputs (for which I just ordered a pair of 1/4" to RCA convertor cables ..hopefully arriving in a day or two) & then run the amp into the NS-20 speaker's to use as monitors ..like so. This will also beat any FRFR speaker setup to run my Mooer GE300 modeler (with IR's) into..
And for what it's worth a youtube demo (not mine) just to give you some idea of how awesome these sound..
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