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Authorized dealers for Yamaha NS-600A

  • Absoulute Audio plus Video — in-store — Aiken, South Carolina, United States (website)
  • The Music Room — online and in-store — Erie, Colorado, United States (website)
  • 138 Quaiduson — online and in-store — Lille, Hauts-de-France, France (website)
  • A1 Futureshop — online and in-store — North Rocks, New South Wales, Australia (website)
  • Abt Electronics — online and in-store — Glenview, Illinois, United States (website)
  • Accessories 4 less — online and in-store — Apopka, Florida, United States (website)
  • Acclaim Sound and Light — in-store — North Bay, Ontario, Canada (website)
  • Acoustic Sound Design — in-store — Las Vegas, Nevada, United States (website)
  • Acoustic Sounds — online and in-store — Salina, Kansas, United States (website)
  • Acton Gate Audio — online and in-store — Cymru, United Kingdom (website)

and 260 more verified dealers

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Yamaha NS-600A

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NS-600A Bookshelf Speaker (Each)

The NS-600A is a compact 2-way speaker that provides faithful reproduction of all musical instruments and precise sound images.


  • 2-way bookshelf speaker with 5 1/8" woofer
  • A newly developed "Harmonious Diaphragm" made of a blend of materials, including Zylon and spruce, for true tonal balance
  • Ideal cabinet construction, designed with vibration analysis technology cultivated in our crafting of musical instruments
  • Yamaha-patented Acoustic Absorber optimized for the NS-600A
  • Yamaha-patented R.S. (Resonance Suppression) Chamber for suppressing unwanted resonance
  • Authentic piano finish adds to the luxurious joy of ownership
  • High-quality parts for crossover circuitry, including audio capacitors made by Mundorf of Germany
  • Solid brass speaker terminals for highly secure connection and luxurious feel

TOTAL ELEGANCE WITH CLEAR SOUND FIELD

Yamaha created the NS-600A bookshelf speaker by fusing rich aesthetics with the latest advanced technology. The unique diaphragm material produces exceptionally unified tone, while the spacious large-capacity cabinet delivers a vast and luxuriant sound field. It is all topped off with a beautiful grand piano-like finish that gives you an even more luxurious music listening experience.


Using our signature gloss finish, a technique traditionally reserved for our finest pianos, this speaker provides an aesthetic pleasure, whether you're immersed in its sound or simply admiring its presence.


TRUE SOUND

Yamaha is the only audio brand in the world that manages every facet of sound, from its creation to the moment it graces your ears. Simply close your eyes, and you won't just hear the music - you'll experience the unparalleled sensation of being genuinely closer to the artist.


TONAL BALANCE

Every ear hears the world differently. Yamaha expresses sound as the artist intended. Reproducing sonic elements such as vocals and instruments at the right pitch requires both passion and precision. Yamaha accomplishes this through tonal balance, enriching harmonies and recreating musicality to help you hear sounds you couldn't hear before.


PERFECTLY UNIFIED TONE

PERFECTLY UNIFIED TONE

As a world-renowned music brand, Yamaha is relentlessly committed to accurately reproducing the sounds of instruments. In order to make this quest a reality, we created flagship speakers under the design concept of having consistent tone color throughout the entire frequency spectrum and applied unique technology to achieve it. For each and every one of its speaker units, the NS-600A employs the newly developed Harmonious Diaphragm™—made from a blend of ZYLON®, which has excellent sound velocity and optimal internal dissipation — and spruce, which is used in the soundboard of Yamaha grand pianos.


DYNAMICS

We pursue a sense of dynamics that express the contrast between stillness and motion in the music - allowing you to immerse yourself in the deep emotions in the music.


TOTAL MUSIC REPRODUCTION

Our patented Resonance Suppression chambers are mounted on the back of the tweeter in order to faithfully express even the finest nuances of musical instruments and voices. Two specially shaped tubes cancel unwanted resonance generated behind the diaphragm, revitalizing and maintaining the original sound.


FAITHFUL MUSICAL PRESENCE

Conventional speakers use a large amount of sound-absorbing material to eliminate standing waves inside the cabinet. However, this also removes much of the music's character. In the NS-600A, we’ve employed our patented Absorber tube to eliminate standing waves, while minimizing the amount of absorbing material, so that the original realism of music is reproduced with full energy and dynamism.


SOUND IMAGE

The position of the artist and instruments, along with the delicate nuances and atmosphere of the performance space, are stunningly reproduced. The resulting sound is so lifelike, you'll feel as though you were in the same room as the performance.


HIGHLY MUSICAL VIBRATION CONTROL

The principles for creating superb sound — understanding enclosure acoustics and pinpointing where to suppress vibrations — are virtually identical, whether crafting musical instruments or speakers. The NS-600A's cabinet construction incorporates state-of-the-art design technology while making full use of laser vibrometers, a tool essential in musical instrument research and development, as well as sophisticated Finite Element Method (FEM) analysis. The cross piece of the cabinet has also been reinforced. Experience a rich spatial sound that fully immerses you, making you feel as though you're right in the center of the performance.


SEAMLESS SONIC PERFORMANCE

Representative of the flagship series, the NS-600A adopts the highest quality parts for the crossover circuit. The MCap® SUPREME Classic audio capacitor made by Mundorf of Germany, renowned as the pinnacle in audio-use capacitor, is used along with a huge woofer coil.


TWISTED FLARE PORT

The speaker is equipped with our original Twisted Flare Port. It adds a gentle twist to reduce air flow noise around the port, a common problem in conventional bass reflex speakers. This delivers an exceptionally accurate response with clear, tight bass reproduction.


HIGH-QUALITY FEEL

The speaker terminals feature an original design, with a shape that comfortably fits with human fingers for a luxurious feel, while simultaneously allowing for effortless tightening.


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Professional Reviews 91/100

Rating for NS-600A

Deliciously Crispy

Sound Quality

92/100

Build Quality

95/100

Value for Money

86/100

The rich midrange and expansive imaging make the NS-600A a vividly engaging standmount, with vocals and instruments rendered in a clean, articulate, slightly warm presentation. StereoNET United Kingdom praises its musical flow, punchy dynamics, and impressively inert cabinet, while noting it can sound bright with the wrong partnering and may benefit from a sub for the deepest bass.

What Reviewers Are Saying

"Its highly musical nature makes recordings come alive; every genre I listened to sounded resolved and easily held my interest."

StereoNET United Kingdom — Mark Gusew

Pros

Rich, textured midrange gives vocals and instruments strong presence and tonal colour.

Expansive, three-dimensional soundstage with excellent separation and imaging.

Lively dynamics and fast transients make music sound energetic and engaging.

Superb build quality, with a stiff cabinet and premium finish and hardware.

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Cons

Treble can become bright or forward depending on amplifier and recording choice.

Deep bass is good for the size, but the lowest registers may still call for a subwoofer.

The response is not perfectly ruler-flat, with some dips and peaks audible.

SOUND QUALITY PERFORMANCE 92/100

Reviewers describe a clean, vivid, highly articulate speaker with long-term listening appeal. The NS-600A is praised for its tonal richness in the midband, airy but controlled treble, surprisingly spacious imaging, and bass that is well integrated and more substantial than you might expect from its size, though very deep bass demands can still call for a sub.

Bass

88/100

Bass is described as nicely textured, well integrated with the midrange, and not lacking. The speaker is said to go deep for its size, but one reviewer notes that pipe organ and heavy metal listeners may still want a subwoofer, which keeps it from feeling full-range in the largest sense.

Mid

95/100

The midrange is repeatedly singled out as the special strength here. Reviewers call it full, dense, textured, and rich in tonal color, with vocals becoming the focal point thanks to a slight emphasis that brings voices and instruments forward in a very engaging way.

Treble

89/100

The treble is described as well lit, articulate, and legible, helping the speaker sound open and detailed. There is some dependence on amplifier and recording choice, though, because it can also sound bright, forward, or assertive if the pairing is not ideal.

Soundstage Imaging

96/100

Imaging is a major highlight, with the speaker said to sound far larger than its modest size suggests. Reviewers praise a cavernous soundstage, strong front-to-back and side-to-side placement, and excellent separation that keeps complex recordings uncluttered and resolved.

Dynamics

92/100

The NS-600A is described as lively, punchy, and very responsive to transients. Reviewers highlight excellent timing, clean starts and stops, and a sense of music sounding alive and engaging, which gives it strong energy for a standmount of this type.

Assessments of Build Quality, Usability, and Overall Propositions.

Build Quality

95/100

The cabinet and hardware earn consistently strong praise. Reviewers call it superbly built, very stiff, and immaculately finished, with rounded corners, a high-gloss piano-black look, solid brass binding posts, and neatly executed resonance-control ideas throughout the design.

Value for Money

86/100

The asking price places it in serious premium territory, but the review frames it as a welcome and worthwhile entrant in the mid-market standmount scene. That is positive, though it stops short of calling it a bargain or an obvious bargain-basement standout versus cheaper rivals.

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Authorized dealers for Yamaha NS-600A

  • Absoulute Audio plus Video — in-store — Aiken, South Carolina, United States (website)
  • The Music Room — online and in-store — Erie, Colorado, United States (website)
  • 138 Quaiduson — online and in-store — Lille, Hauts-de-France, France (website)
  • A1 Futureshop — online and in-store — North Rocks, New South Wales, Australia (website)
  • Abt Electronics — online and in-store — Glenview, Illinois, United States (website)
  • Accessories 4 less — online and in-store — Apopka, Florida, United States (website)
  • Acclaim Sound and Light — in-store — North Bay, Ontario, Canada (website)
  • Acoustic Sound Design — in-store — Las Vegas, Nevada, United States (website)
  • Acoustic Sounds — online and in-store — Salina, Kansas, United States (website)
  • Acton Gate Audio — online and in-store — Cymru, United Kingdom (website)

and 260 more verified dealers