Yamaha NS-10 reborn, Avantone Drop-in Replacement Tweeter
It was long my Yamaha NS-10 monitors had both tweeters dead, I love these speakers so much that I was costantly thinking on fixing them, but didn’t want to spend a fortune. Unfortunately, the blown tweeter is a very common issue with these monitors and as the NS-10 remains an indispensable tool for lots of people, the original tweeters are still in high demand. As the NS-10 speakers are no more in production that is long already, finding parts was getting pretty hard and the originals, reached very high prices. This is the reason that forced me years ago, to buy a pair of Yamaha MSP-5, monitors that I love very much, but that are not “my” NS10s.
Last week, with great surprise I discovered that Avantone Pro, the company of those classic tiny monitors, are selling identical copies of the original NS-10 speakers and at a really attractive price. After reading all I could and watching a few videos, I decided this was the best way to go and wanted to give a try to these replacement tweeters. I bought mine through a big online shop at 122 euros each, really a fraction of what I could have spent for NOS Yamaha NS-10 tweeters.
As promised the replacement is a drop in, there’s no need of adapting anything, the shape of the replacement speaker is identical to the original. All is as simple as soldering the speaker cables to the new tweeters and screw the tweeter back into the monitor.
I’m surprised at looking how identical to the original these tweeters are, all details are exactly the same, only the ring around the tweeter dome, has a slightly lighter grey colour. Is it this the difference that allows Avantone to clone the Yamaha speakers, without copyright infringement repercussions? Sure you understand I’m just kidding, I’m sure if they can freely sell a so exact copy, these details have been cleared already.
After the installation and the promising sound test, I’ve been mixing for several hours, completely forgetting I was doing so on the new tweeters, perfect prove that I was feeling absolutely confortable with their sound!
I’m very happy with this upgrade! :)
Ummm… are these available to purchase?
Yes, you can buy them, in Thomann they were in stock. Good luck!
Im going for this. Its ridiculous the prices for the original.
Are you still putting resistor between +- to protect them or are this more sturdy ?
Thanks for the article.
K
I hadn’t put any resistor, I don’t think they are needed and there weren’t on the original tweeters I removed.
Thanks to you for reading!
Hello, I came across your very interesting website while looking for information on the horn speaker for Yamaha 10NS monitors. Thanks to this, I know that similar speakers can be bought in the Thomann store. My question — WHAT DID YOU DO WITH THE DAMAGED SPEAKERS? Ja 0518A ???? I am an almost 70-year-old electronics technician, all my life I have been dealing with sound equipment. I ALSO REPAIR ALL TYPES OF SPEAKERS. If you haven’t thrown away the damaged speakers, I’d love to buy them back to repair / these speakers have a very unusual coil size — no ready-made repair kits will fit, this dimension is approx 1.1″ /. I have several unique Goodmans speakers in my warehouse , ALNICO from the 40s/50s, also interesting FANE 12 “CRESCENDO speakers. I’m guessing you’re Italian, I’m writing from Poland. In Poland there is a big problem with buying diaphragms for old speakers, I’m curious if there is more availability in your country. Sorry for any mistakes, this is a translation from GOOGLE. Regards, Stanislaw Malecha.
Ciao, mi sono imbattuto nel tuo sito molto interessante mentre cercavo informazioni sull’altoparlante a tromba per i monitor Yamaha 10NS. Grazie a questo, so che diffusori simili possono essere acquistati nel negozio Thomann. La mia domanda — COSA HAI FATTO CON GLI ALTOPARLANTI DANNEGGIATI Ja 0518A ???? Sono un tecnico elettronico di quasi 70 anni, da tutta la vita mi occupo di apparecchiature audio. RIPARO ANCHE TUTTI I TIPI DI ALTOPARLANTI. Se non hai buttato via gli altoparlanti danneggiati, mi piacerebbe riacquistarli per ripararli / questi altoparlanti hanno una dimensione della bobina molto insolita — nessun kit di riparazione già pronto si adatta, questa dimensione è di circa 1,1 “/. Ho diversi diffusori Goodmans unici nel mio magazzino, ALNICO degli anni ’40/’50, interessanti anche diffusori FANE 12” CRESCENDO. Immagino tu sia italiano, ti scrivo dalla Polonia. In Polonia c’è un grosso problema con l’acquisto di diaframmi per vecchi altoparlanti, sono curioso di sapere se c’è più disponibilità nel tuo paese. Ci scusiamo per eventuali errori, questa è una traduzione da GOOGLE. Saluti, Stanislaw Malecha.