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Guys, i'm downsizing and can't help but notice 2ru being eaten up by an amp for my NS10's (alesis ra100)
Is there a super small solution that i can drop on my desktop to power these? The smaller the better!

If not, what's a good compact studio monitor that very very sounds similar? I've got dynaudio bm5a's that sound radically different.

I have been pondering something similar myself - the RA100 that I have is noisy as hell and big and clunky.

How powerful an amp do NS10's actually need?
They are only rated at 25w from memory.

I am almost considering building my own.

Some of the options I have been pondering are the pair of JLM amp kits - 60watts each
Rob's stereo amp which is only 25watts per side - http://www.broadcastproaudio.com/simplifier.htm
Or perhaps just cutting to the chase and going with a hypex unit - https://www.hypexshop.com/

Those RA100s are terrible sounding amps!!!
If you ever get a chance to A-B with a decent amp and your jaw will hit the floor (at how woeful they are)
On NS10's - astonishingly bad!
Do yourselves a favour - get rid of the RA100 for ANY sized amp!

One of the better amps around that are very compact are the Hypex class D amps. They are available in modules with all you need for DIY, and have had rave reviews from quite a few mastering engineers os.
Have a look around here:
http://www.hypex.nl/

Two of these amp Modules and a power supply will do the job.



Power Supply:

Robs box looks the goods! I'll send an email.

My soldering skills are roughly as good as my music production skills (and that's not a good thing)

"How powerful an amp do NS10's actually need?
They are only rated at 25w from memory. "

Give them heaps! - Ive seen them with 200w per side.
(IMO they need at least 75w per side)

Most big studios that have them as nearfields - run huge wattage amps.

The Tasmanian wrote:"How powerful an amp do NS10's actually need?
They are only rated at 25w from memory. "

Give them heaps! - Ive seen them with 200w per side.
(IMO they need at least 75w per side)

Most big studios that have them as nearfields - run huge wattage amps.

Exactly what Chris said. Give them heaps of juice! Unfortunately that generally doesn't mean something small in size...

I've run them with a one rack unit hafler P1000. Plenty of power and headroom with no clipping problems.

+1 for Big Amp. Little amp + NS10 = meh. Big amp + NS10 = oh THAT'S why people use these things.

Having said that, the Hypex is a pretty big little amp. Barney might be able to chime in with his considerable experience with building them.

Been a while since I hooked up the hypex amps to the NS10s, wasn't a combo that sounded great to me at the time, I preferred a Perreaux 2000B with the NS10s. But I have been using UCD400HG amps for a while now and have a pair of UCD700HG with an analogue PSU that is yet to be finished. I really dig them, lots of transient detail and depth. Took a while for them to grow on me, at one stage I had the Hypex UCD400HG, Perreaux, Bryston 4BST, Krell KSA50 mkII here. I liked something about all of them but for me at this stage Hypex is working for me.

The UCD34MP is a stereo amp and PSU all in one module and would fit the bill. Or you could get a pair of UCD400MP amp/PSU modules. Price is good and pretty simple to wire up.

Thanks everything. Funnily, now I'm actually thinking of selling and buying some small genelecs or the whatnot.

...............meandering through the annals of wasted time.
Nothing is going to sound like NS 10's, but the Emes are a great little monitor.
http://www.emes.de
Factory Sound in Vic had them for a while.
Or there is always what Yamaha has made as a moden day replacement...

or to tread where others have gone before you there is always this place....... Modern day Yamaha NS10 equivalent?

https://www.gearslutz.com/board/so-much ... alent.html

Great, I'm just downsizing in general and I think that it's right that nothing is like a NS10, not that it matters I just found it the best monitor to place vocals, for me. Thanks for the links, Chris!