Quality:
On the new A Perfect Circle album, in the first song (the package), at high volumes, the bass makes the speakers rattle a lot. Those kind of frequencies ask for a subwoofer.
Value:
They worth more than double the price. Want to have the same mixing conditions than Andy Wallace and other world-class mixing engineers and producers? Buy them.
Desirability:
When I was searching for monitors, I checked out this possibility because they seemed a bit ugly and too small to have good bass. But after searching and reading a lot of reviews to other brands and models I realised: "They use NS10 to mix in pro studios! I just need that type of precision and capacity to show the ugly things in a mix. I need Yamahas".
The MSP5 have it all.
Sound:
Sound is FLAT until around 50 HZ. I mean FLAT. I measured the frequency response at the listening position and I got an almost flat graph (with slightly more treble). The sound is HUGE for such small speakers. It's pretty much a new, improved version of the legendary NS10! Trust me, don't listen to any other reviews. These speakers literally open the whole mix, so that you can see its guts.
Overall:
I think my ears will mold to this sound, and probably I will someday get a subwoofer to match them. But they will remain as my mixing spoeakers for a lifetime.
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