Yamaha HS Monitors: True, Neutral Playback with Exacting Precision

Yamaha has spent more than 100 years honing and refining their revered craftsmanship, evolving from manufacturing reed organs to designing and producing some of the world’s most lauded audio gear, instruments, and more spanning countless musical realms. Their HS line of powered studio monitors have become a staple of sonic sanctuaries around the globe, offering a flexible yet formidable array of speakers and subwoofers that continue Yamaha’s legacy of engineering excellence and exacting precision, providing truly neutral referencing. This unwavering dedication to accuracy, supported by countless hours of painstaking research and the deployment of state-of-the-art audio technologies, has made the HS Series a bona fide studio staple. Mitch Gallagher, Sweetwater’s scion of studio scholarship, provides a comprehensive overview of the HS line, as well as showcasing the series’ two latest entries: the HS3 and the HS4. Check it out! 00:00 — Intro 00:37 — Monitor Legacy: NS-10 01:45 — HS Series: A New Legacy 04:25 — New Models: HS3, HS4 06:09 — Which Is Right for You? 07:10 — Outro For more from Sweetwater, follow us: #MitchGallagher