Yamaha NS-6490 3-Way Bookshelf Speakers Finish (Pair) Black
$200.00
About this item These 3 way speakers can be added anywhere in your home component sound system front or rear speakers, even as auxiliary speakers for another room Each speaker enclosure has 3 drivers: An 8 woofer/ a 4 midrange/ a 0.75 dome tweeter that work together to provide an 45Hz to 23Khz frequency response range Magnetically shielded to suit home theater applications
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NS-6490 Bookshelf Stereo Speakers
Great performing 3-Way Acoustic Speakers for any theater or stereo applications.
- Type- 3-way acoustic suspecsion speaker system magnetic shielding type
- Driver- 8″ Cone Woofer, 4″ Cone Mid-Range, 7/8″ Balanced Dome Tweeter
- Frequency Response- 45 Hz – 23 kHz
- Nominal Impedance- 8 ohms
- Nominal Input Power- 70W
- Maximum Input Power- 140W
- Sensitivity- 90 dB/2.83 V/m
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| Product Dimensions | 13 x 13 x 25 inches |
|---|---|
| Item Weight | 26.5 pounds |
| Manufacturer | Yamaha Audio |
| ASIN | B00018Q4GA |
| UNSPSC Code | 52161512 |
| Country of Origin | China |
| Item model number | NS-6490 |
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| Best Sellers Rank | #21,439 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics) #54 in Bookshelf Speakers |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
| Date First Available | December 22, 2003 |
10 reviews for Yamaha NS-6490 3-Way Bookshelf Speakers Finish (Pair) Black
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Bill Powers –
These speakers are remarkable! Yes, I know they’re Yamaha and the reputation is impressive, but thse turned out to sound so much better than I expected! I had an old faithful set of JBL 312’s which were big, tall speakers, with I think a 12-inch woofer ad I think it was only a 2-way system. they were great in their day but recently, one of the speakers died, its cone paper shriveled up and disintegrated. I had them almost 20 years and no telling how old they were since I bought them used. Needing a set of speakers fast, I searched Amazon for something not too expensive since I just moved into a house and had loads of other expenses. I found these Yamahas. When I hooked them up and turned on the Sony receiver, I was shocked how full sounding they were. Our living room is nearly 20 feet long and the receiver is OK on power but not a real high power amp. These speakers filled the living room quite nicely. I put them on stands I bought from Amazon and assembled in no time, and while they are shorter than I was hoping they would be, the speakers still sound awesome though they are not as high up as I would like. One day when I am clear of house move-In expenses, i’ll get higher stands then speakers will improve even more. Meanwhile, they are quite nice and I’d have no qualms about recommending them to anyone. they sound much better than they look and they have a certain quality to them that seems far beyond the price.
R. Carter –
These speakers are amazing. Unfortunately, they were not suitable for my application because of their large size. I needed a couple of small overhead speakers for Dolby Atmos high presence front speakers. I saw ‘bookshelf’ and stupidly did not check the actual dimensions. They are only suitable for bookshelves if you live in Brobdingnag! Before I returned them I tried them out and was blown away by the quality. They sound as good as my expensive Boston tower units. The bass is full and clearly defined. The high notes are as crisp as a bell. Voices and piano (always a good test of a speaker as most listeners know how they sound) are natural. I decided to keep them anyway, they are just too good to return.
DennisDennis –
Update, I been working my cd changer overtime to break these speakers in and they’re absolutely brilliant sounding speakers, yeah I confess I purchased a 2nd pair.Yamaha did something right at $129.The bass is taught with plenty of punch my sub takes on the deep notes.Mid range is warm and lively. Vocal and instrumental passages are really natural and smooth.The tweeters are softening up but are bright and overall give the ns-6490s the top end sparkle which makes these speakers produce wonderful acoustics with a sense of realism.They aren’t pretty but they sound good.Very large for bookshelf speakers and black vinyl with no simulated wood grain these are some ugly ducklings.The woofer and mid range are very generic with cloth surrounds and pearlized poly coating and of course the all very famous mylar tweeter that is found in 100’s of budget speakers. The cloth surrounds are really showing a sense of budget and vintage design, they’ll most likely not rot out like foam woofer surrounds. I am guessing they went with a classic design approach in an acoustic suspension setup, if they used rubber surround the woofer would have had more slop over the cloth which provides more cone control for a tighter taught bass punch. The poly coating on the woofer and mid doesn’t do much besides aesthetics and prolong the lifespan of the drivers making them more resilient to humidity and drying out. Although the poly coating may help add weight and stiffness to the cones mass and in the end giving a tad smoother frequency response since the woofer rolls off with no crossover and the mid just uses a first order.I came across a post of some guy who dismantled his speakers so without taking mine apart i know the crossover is just a simple yet effective 1st order with capacitors on the mid and tweet. I would have liked to see a resistor on the tweeter to tame the mylar edginess unless its mounted behind the tweeter itself. I know my pair of NS-6490s are brand new and need to be played and broken in longer so hopefully the tweet will lose some of that edginess and have a little more sparkle once the capacitors get seasoned. The gentleman that had his speakers apart also noted that Yamaha had made some sort of a mistake and reversed polarity on the mid range. If Yamaha did do this it wasn’t by error it may have been done so the bass frequencies would be out of phase going through the mid range since they’re not needed there it’s a mid range not a mid bass. While the woofer is running without a crossover and the first order on the mid range there isn’t a steep slope between the bass and mids so there’s no hole and transition between drivers is smooth. Secondly the reverse polarity can be to keep the mid range and woofer out of phase because the woofer has no crossover and will most likely play 500-1500hz which can make the mid sound pretty crappy.The woofer does a fair job at producing what it’s supposed to until it runs out of steam, while i never had 3-way speakers before the mid range is a paper cone and does instruments and vocals really well giving these speakers a sense of warmth and realism which is great because this is the most audible range in human hearing. The NS-6490 finishes off the audio range by using a mylar film type tweeter which is ok as I mentioned while these are still new the tweets are edgy but are sometimes known to mellow out and have nice sparkle to them. I guess better than Yamaha going with a paper cone tweeter even though I have heard great sounding paper tweets.I really can’t knock these down for what they are, priced ok not the best looking they are definitely the largest bookshelf speakers I have seen well I knew dimensions so thats no flaw and they are acoustic suspension enclosures with an 8″ woofer therefor they will be quite large in size.I think Yamaha met their design goal, I heard they been making the NS-6490 for over 20 years and although odd to be producing speakers this large in a market of people buying sound bars and sound docks there is evidently a market of people looking for something different.What caught my eye was the classic 3-way design and knew that Yamaha makes a good product based that along with other positive reviews I went for the plunge. I am glad I did cause they sound great even though the large size is still growing on me.
joe – PA –
These speakers Rock!!! I am a music lover from the 1960’s through the 1990’s. I have recently bought new speakers (woofer & tweeter) they call a “3-way”, but by sound they are NOT. These truly ARE A 3-way speaker. The Midrange speaker almost all manufactures took out makes their speaker sound cheap. Polk, Klipsch, JBL, ALL of Them. Please put back the “midrange” speaker. People have no idea what they are really missing when listening to rock, classical, etc. with a 2 way (they call 3-way) speaker. That IS why I bought these & they bring music back to life!! I do recommend these to any true audiophile from the 60’s or 70’s. In the 70’s I had Fisher Speakers with a 15″ woofer, (2) 4 1/2″ midranges & a 1″ tweeter plus a 1″ super tweeter. Those were real speakers back then. No subwoofer required!!
Amazon Customer –
Just a word about where I come from, OK. Got my first real system from Radio Shack while at college in 1967. A Scott amp w/ AR speakers a Lear Turntable and Koss Pro 4as. Moving to the present I have a 15 year old Onkyo Tx-SR500 w/ Pioneer PD-F1007 CD changer. Just got a Samsung 65″ TV and was not happy with my Yamaha NS-A535 speakers. Even though the receiver will handle surround just use A&B for now as I do not want wires every where. I will wait for reasonable priced Low Latenacy Bluetooth Tech before upgrading. So I thought I would replace the 535’s with these 6490″s as they are 3-way and cheap. Since the Onyko is rated at 145 watts should be good for now. First listen up audio snobs— the speakers are not ugly just very plain Jane. Out of the box the highs are very good, the mids are OK, and the lows are there but not great; so a subwoofer will be next. Vocals are very good (from Johnny Cash to Joan Baez); brass is also good (TJB sounded very good ). And Victroy At Sea sound tract was acceptable as well For around $100 I can get a very good wireless LL (<17ms) sender and receiver for a sub woofer and that may be next. I would have given 4.5 stars if that was an option. If you are old school and want cheap but good speakers I highly recommend these older tech 3-Ways.
peterbuchan81 –
I was looking for a set of budget bookshelf speakers for a bedroom 2 channel component setup strictly for audio. At first I was sucked in by all the glowing reviews for the Sony SSCS5, which is also a 3 way speaker design but after hooking them up side by side with my ONKYO TX-8140 receiver, ONKYO C-730 CD Player and pure copper 14 gauge speaker wire, I was shocked by the dramatic improvement in sound quality exhibited by these budget priced Yamaha speakers over that of the SONY. Better top end, more detail, better bass; overall wider. deeper sound stage with greater separation and impact, despite the fact that the Yamaha, unlike the SONY, is a non-ported design. People are raving about how great these SONY speakers are, that they compare favorably to gazillion dollar speakers they’ve heard and owned, yet after a direct comparison where only the speakers were swapped out and everything else was left the same, I found the Yamaha to produce a sound which is quite obviously more desirable. At all settings & EQs (especially “direct” audio mode) the difference in quality was literal night and day, and at these prices, this simply should not be. I only wish those reviewers had heard my new Yamahas directly against the product they are all praising in such hype-filled, exaggerated terms. After having done so, and if they were honest, there is just no way they could not continue to maintain their opinions. I’m not claiming that $129 pair of speakers are the be-all, end-all of quality. But they are clearly a tremendous bargain with a very large, detailed, natural sound that I imagine you’d have to spend quite a bit more to significantly improve upon.
Nicklaus –
My active Sub splits it’s 60 watts into a 15x15x30, so at the moment I only have 15 watts max going to each of the speakers and they are performing amazingly. Word of warning, these are assymetric speakers, essentially meaning that you get two “right” side speakers. I turned one speaker upside down in order to help center the sound (tweeters should be towards the outside of the speakers in an arrangement like this). It looks neat but the speaker covers are offset, meaning if you flip a speaker up side down tou can’t put the cover rightside up because there will be an awkward overhang. Other than the assymetric design these speakers are amazing.These speakers greatly benefit from a Subwoofer. My current sub in only 6″, I can’t imagine how much better this will be when I get a 10″.Also, these are sealed speaker boxes which is how these speakers we designed to operate in. I have seen that some people drilled holes into them in some of reviews. I think this may add a “hollow” sounding acoustic to them.Update: I added a Nobsound 200 watt 2.1 reciever and a low profile Dayton subwoofer which has 4, 4″ subwoofers in it. 50 watts to each of the Yamaha speakers and a 100 watts to the sub woofer. It has a full sound that is crisp.
Wurzin –
Although I haven’t tried every speaker out there, I have tried others and these speakers beat them all hands down. A very good product. Everything is clear and sonically smooth throughout the frequency range of these speakers and that is saying A LOT for speakers in this price range. I love Yamaha for living up to their reputation with their products when so many companies treat their customers like chumps by always going to the lowest quality of components to get the best markup for their poor designs after an initial high quality component and relying on their name recognition to play their future customers for fools.Thank you Yamaha for not being one of them.
Robbholio –
I’ve got these matched with a Yamaha Receiver pushing 100 watts per channel. They sound clear and surprisingly push a decent amount of bass for smaller speakers. My only gripe is they could have probably been ported which would have made a little bit of a difference with bass reproduction. NOTE: They are rather large for bookshelf speakers. These do actually sounds like tower speakers though; I am pleasantly surprised. These could definitely be used for mains as well as surrounds.
Michael –
I’ve lost count of the stereos Ive owned since the 60’s. I have a good ear, but my hearing has been compromised a bit by loud music, and headphones. I have been a huge Klipsch fan for years, and last year re-built a large speak with a 12″ Alnico driver. I added both a horn and a mid-range and loved the sound, but they were huge cabinets and weighed about 60 pounds each. Until I ordered these new Yamaha speakers, I didn’t think it was possible to get 3-way sound from such a small box. I read all the reviews I could, got them a few days ago and almost straight out of the box I was hooked on them. I do have a subwoofer attached to these and it makes a difference. They are very clean and clear, the highs not overly bright and the mid-range is perfect for my ears. I have them on 15″ floor stands I made myself and they are everything I anticipated.