Yamaha NS-1000M

摘要

There's no such thing as the perfect loudspeaker, nor is there ever likely to be one. Most manufacturers don't even try - theirs is a volume business where the trick is to produce a good-sounding product at an affordable price. There's nothing wrong with this, as perfection can often be the enemy of the good. Yet sometimes hi-fi companies do reach for the stars, and attempt to come up with an innovative, no-holds-barred design. Yamaha's NS-1000/1000M was precisely one of these. Love it or loathe it, following its launch in 1974 it became recognised as a landmark product. With the NS-1000M, Yamaha set out to make a fully rounded high-end loudspeaker, one that delivered a wide bandwidth, handled a massive amount of power by the standards of the day, had very low distortion and a lightning-fast transient response. It was an audacious product and one that would become a particular favourite in US and Japanese recording studios for its combination of transparency, bandwidth and power handling.