Hindsight after 45 years

I still have the ns5000, it's in my regular house. I keep the above mentioned pro speakers in my cabin. Wife got mad with concerts going on and dudes camped out every weekend in my regular house. So, i had to move myself and some stuff to my cabin for fridays through sundays.. But, now that i'm officially retired, i don't really need to go back home either.  

Yamaha's a bit unique in the audio sphere because they have some very specialized know-how as a musical instrument manufacturer,  also very much a proaudio company.

But, they have a small segment of audiophile speakers (or marketed as such)... Very refined engg and nicer looking for WAF, but, their sound master and their musical instruments guys iterate back and forth and get it to sound a lot like their instruments. 

The NS5000 is one of them, i would call it a hybrid sound of a high end midfield studio monitor sort of speaker and a audiophile home speaker. It is not god awful clinical like a genelec or something. The yamaha is very accurate, but, pleasant, would be good for some smaller or mid-sized rooms.  

deep333

Thanks for the informative post! My first question is "where do they sit compared to the Yamaha NS5000s" that you do (or used to own)? Those Yamahas are finalists for my next speaker purchase

I still have the ns 1000 with be mid and tweeter,still great several decades latter.have the piano player nice finish. Would like to hear the 5000. Its yama new textreme,teonix material with same properties to beryllium. Jbl has some horns like it and final,ps audio made thier ribbons out of it.enjoy the music

The gist of all this and in reference to OP's post is that horns are hard to beat if you are looking for a more "live" musical experience. Probably why Klipsch has such a core of devoted followers. 

@mahgister 

+1

Havingfun123.  Your experience mirrors mine.  2 different types of equipment designed to be used in different ways.  My stepfather was a professional musician and I remember him setting up some of his performance gear at home.  Roland and Yamaha keyboards, Peavy amps and Leslies etc.  It sounded live because it was but it didn’t cut it for listening to recorded music including his.  The noise floor was too much as you noted.  I’m sure my best home setup wouldn’t have swung if he tried using it on stage.  Live music is great in a hall and so are live recordings or studio tracks in a well treated listening room.  The gear isn’t interchangeable in my experience.