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YAMAHA NS-6490 3-Way Bookshelf Speakers Finish (Pair) Black

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Style: Bookshelf Speakers


Features

  • 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

Description

Upgrade your current 5.1 home theater to a 7.1-Channel surround sound system by adding a pair of Yamaha NS-6490 bookshelf speakers. The NS-6490 speaker was designed for both professional and home entertainment enthusiasts with the capability to deliver a full, clear, and tight sound response. This elegant 3-way shelf speaker delivers rich, room-filling, high-fidelity sound by utilizing an ultra-wide frequency response, an impressive 8" high-output woofer, 4" midrange driver, 7/8" balanced dome tweeter, and 140W of power.

Brand: YAMAHA


Model Name: NS-6490


Speaker Type: Tweeter, Woofer, Bookshelf


Connectivity Technology: Auxiliary


Special Feature: Built in microphone


Recommended Uses For Product: Home Theater


Compatible Devices: Laptop, Personal Computer, Tablet, Smartphone


Subwoofer Diameter: 8 Inches


Mounting Type: Shelf Mount


Controller Type: Corded Electric


Surround Sound Channel Configuration: 3.0


Color: Black


Product Dimensions: 13"D x 13"W x 25"H


Audio Output Mode: Surround


Speaker Maximum Output Power: 140 Watts


Age Range (Description): Adult


Item Weight: 26.5 Pounds


Impedance: 8 Ohm


Is Waterproof: FALSE


Maximum Range: 10 Meters


Number of Items: 2


Control Method: Remote


Speaker Size: 8 Inches


Power Source: Corded Electric


Package Type: Standard Packaging


Connectivity Protocol: Auxiliary


Number Of Circuits: 3


Has Multidevice Pairing: Yes


Has Powered Option: Yes


Is Magnetically Shielded: Yes


Item Weight: 26.5 pounds


Manufacturer: Yamaha


Item model number: NS-6490


Is Discontinued By Manufacturer: No


Date First Available: December 22, 2003


Input Voltage: 2.83 Volts


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    • Great value
Style: Bookshelf Speakers
These speakers are good. I live in a 55 years old and up retirement apartments, so thundering bass at loud volume is not wise due to consideration for others. My application is 2 channel stereo, not a video/ audio home theater system. The speakers have bass, but not alot of it. I don't intend to modify crossovers. They have good midrange and treble. They became part of a 4 speaker, 2 channel audio only system. If I lived in a house, I would want more bass but in my 55 and up retirement apartment situation, wall shaking bass is not wise .I rated 4 stars personally. I won't say excellent. I will say good. They are ,to me , almost too big to call bookshelf speakers. They would be big bookshelf speakers. I would buy them again. I have no regrets whatsoever. They are,to me , good speakers. I like them fine. They are good looking speakers and they sound good. Someone would need a subwoofer to have thunderous bass. The 8" woofers in these speakers are definitely not subwoofers. They sound good as 2 channel audio only speakers. Well made . Good speakers. Update 12/24/2023 Same speakers but different amplifier. Higher quality input music. With an upgrade amplifier and higher quality music input , these same original speakers I reviewed before sound better than they did before. In all fairness to speakers, in judging them, 2 main considerations are 1 What is the quality of the amplifier we have them hooked to and 2 What is the quality of the recorded or live music we are listening to when we hear them. These things definitely affect how good speakers sound. I hope we take those 2 things into consideration. I was not going to blow these speakers. That is impossible in my case. Too much power to destroy them ain't happening here. I initially rated these speakers at 4. I called them good. Now I realize that if I had of had a better amplifier and music quality input I would have rated them at 5 stars for the price. Quite frankly, when I bought these almost 2 years ago they costed less than almost 2 years later. I didn't pay the current price of these same speakers. Speakers can only sound their best by quality amplifiers and the quality of the music input into the amplifier. I had a cheaper amplifier when I said 4 stars. They didn't sound as good as they could have because the amplifier didn't feed them as good of a sound signal. I am saying 5 stars instead of 4 , especially for what I paid for them almost 2 years ago. I am saying a great value now instead of good speakers. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2022 by Sidney Love
    • Yamaha's take on a classic 3-way speaker design in 2016. If you can get past the size they sound great for the price.
Style: Bookshelf Speakers
Review Image by Dennis Dennis
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. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2016 by Dennis Dennis

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