Yamaha Loudspeakers

Japanese company founded in 1887 making reed organs. Now the largest musical instrument maker in the world, and a major hi-fi and AV brand.

Founded: 1887 (founded as a reed-organ maker; incorporated as Nippon Gakki in 1897)
Founder: Torakusu Yamaha
Headquarters: Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan
Manufacturing: Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia and China
How to buy: Sold through specialist hi-fi dealers, online retailers and pro-audio dealers
Known for: Being a musical instrument maker first, the NS-1000M beryllium monitor, the NS-10M studio monitor, AV receivers

Currently, we have 13 Yamaha loudspeakers in our database. Below you can find the list of these speakers with their main specs and links to their review pages.

Yamaha Passive Bookshelf(4)
Yamaha Passive Floor-standing(5)
Yamaha Passive Center Channel(2)
Yamaha Powered Subwoofer(2)

Yamaha Passive Bookshelf Speakers

Model	Frequency	Sensitivity	Impedance	Woofer
Yamaha NS-333	65-35k Hz	87 dB	6Ω	1 x 5"
Yamaha NS-5000	26-40k Hz	88 dB	6Ω	1 x 12"
Yamaha NS-600A	47-65k Hz	86 dB	6Ω	1 x 5.125"
Yamaha NS-800A	40-65k Hz	87 dB	6Ω	1 x 6.5"

Yamaha Passive Floor-standing Speakers

Model	Frequency	Sensitivity	Impedance	Woofer
Yamaha NS-2000A	34-65k Hz	88 dB	6Ω	2 x 6.5"
Yamaha NS-555	35-35k Hz	88 dB	6Ω	2 x 6.5"
Yamaha NS-777	30-35k Hz	89 dB	6Ω	2 x 8"
Yamaha NS-F150	37-30k Hz	88 dB	6Ω	2 x 6.5"
Yamaha NS-F210	50-45k Hz	86 dB	6Ω	2 x 3.125"

Yamaha Passive Center Channel Speakers

	Model	Frequency	Sensitivity	Impedance	Woofer
	Yamaha NS-C210	65-45k Hz	86 dB	6Ω	2 x 3.125"
	Yamaha NS-C444	55-35k Hz	89 dB	6Ω	2 x 5"

Yamaha Powered Subwoofer Speakers

	Model	Frequency	Amp Power	Woofer
	Yamaha NS-SW050	28-200 Hz	50 watts	1 x 8"
	Yamaha NS-SW100	25-180 Hz	50 watts	1 x 10"

About Yamaha

Yamaha began in 1887 building reed organs in Hamamatsu and is now the largest musical instrument manufacturer in the world - pianos, guitars, brass, drums, synthesisers - with hi-fi as one branch of that. Its NS-1000M of 1974 used beryllium midrange and tweeter domes, decades before beryllium became a high-end talking point. The NS-10M, a small and famously unforgiving monitor, ended up in more recording studios than almost any other speaker.

A clockmaker who was asked to repair a reed organ, decided he could build a better one, and carried the parts over a mountain pass to Tokyo to have it evaluated.

The NS-10M was never designed as a studio monitor - it was a bookshelf hi-fi speaker that engineers adopted precisely because it sounded harsh and exposed problems, on the logic that a mix that worked on an NS-10 would work anywhere. The tissue paper taped over the tweeter to tame it became a studio ritual. Yamaha also built the DX7 synthesiser, which defined the sound of 1980s pop as thoroughly as any instrument ever has.

Notable models: NS-1000M, NS-10M, CA and CR series, A-S series, RX-A receivers.

Official Yamaha website

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