Low price and awesome sound!

Can't crank em' too loud or else they "pop"

Ok, I understand that I may be biased, but these speakers really do the job for the money. I recieved these speakers for Christmas when I was in high school along with an inexpensive, yet powerful amp (the Pioneer SX255R to be exact), and they still sound brand new. They have survived MANY "pops" from songs with lots of bass. The bass is also surprisingly excellent for these speakers! I am currently in college, and I play all my mp3's from my computer on these babies. I have a bass test mp3 and lemme tell ya, the bass rattles my door, and my both my neighbor's doors! The highs are crisp, and sound great. The only real problem with these speakers are that they can't be cranked, or else you have to sacrifice serious sound. When all the guys on my floor are done with classes and crank their speakers, mine can perform well against theirs, but you can't hear them all the way down the hall. In retrospect, these speakers are great for starters and the price is just right. They provide great sound, and will last you a long time. You won't even have to buy the extended warranty the store sells, no matter what they tell ya. Trust me on this!

I have an 8 track recording studio in my home...MIDI system, DigitalPerformer, ect...I needed a pair of speakers to use as reference monitors
for mixdown at home. I picked a pair of these for $25.00 at the MIT
Flea Market in Cambridge. I feel they are fine speakers...and great for
flat response monitoring. As casual listening speakers...for a living
room stereo set up...I would pick another type...but when paired with
another set of speakers...I think they sound fine. I think...for any
speakers today...I can't complain about the price.

If you want clarity, accuracy, or any dependability in an appreciable listening experience, don't buy these speakers. If you're low on cash and can stand a less than average speaker, you really can't get a much better speaker for the price of these. I picked 'em up for $75 new, but $99 seems to be pretty common.

I'm just needed some cheap speakers for playing videogames,what i got for only $100/pair were some descent speakers. There bass was pretty good for 8" woofer,actually if you sit about about 15ft back these little babies rumble.
The sounds produced are pretty clear and so on.

These speakers sounded very unpleasant and muddy. There didn't seem to be a great variation in its frequency reponse, they just didn't please my ears. There wasn't quite enough treble and bass so these speakers didn't make sense to me. After adjusting the equalizer (sigh!) on the amplifier, these speakers performed adequetly but they weren't stunning. In other words, it is a "boring" speaker.

You get what you pay for, the saying goes, but sometimes you get a bit more. For $99, you can't buy a better pair of speakers. Whether I'm listening to Mozart, Bjork, or the Lords of Acid, these Yamahas do very well.

These budget speakers are most suited to background type music with their smooth sound and accurate instrument placing. Unfortunately they exhibit high coloration and below decent dynamic capability especially at the low end (rapid rolloff after 90Hz), despite the hefty 150 watt rms rating. But then again, what can you expect for a $80/pair bookshelf :) Yahama speakers do not live up to the reputation of their superb amplifiers with their, trade mark, rich silky smooth sound. One big exception, ofcourse, is the, oh so revealing, NS-1000M bookshelf monitor. :)

decent mids and highs with the set up that I am running.....
good value for the price........

low bass is not there.......... add a subwoofer

These speakers are more than adequate if used with a proper settup. I use 4 of the ns-636 coupled with a Jbl passive subwoofer on my front channel, and 2 Bose 201s coupled with 2 very old Jensen digital 150 watt three ways for the rear channel. I am running a Pioneer reciever with a five band equalizer with 100 watts per channel, coupled to a 20 watt pioneer 10 band per side equalizer, twelve disc Pionner cd player, and an old pioneer cassette deck. I have read an earlier review that stated decent sound can be achieved if mated with the right component. That is very true......... Yes, it did take some work to tune the system to my liking, and the sound is more than adequate for my needs. All of my equipment has been bought at different times from pawnshops, and I have a total of 400 dollars invested in this system........ Lets see you beat that. decent speaker....decent price......part of a decent system for the money.....

Similar Products Used:

Bose 201, pioneer csg-201, Jensen 150 watt digitals

I know many people who have purchased a pair of these low cost Yamaha speakers. The key to this model (and other Yamaha speakers of US distribution) is that they are cheap to buy - it's that simple.
Here is a speaker that can be bought for between $80 - $100/pr and has not aspirations but to be a cheap starter/extension speaker. At the risk of sounding too harsh to any others here - what do and can you expect? No they are not good little speakers.. you want good little speakers you need to shop at the PSB, Paradigm, NHT and Mission (among many others) store. If you want cheap speakers for the garage/workshop or a basic starter system and don't want to risk foam-rot problems with a used pair... they are just fine.

I give them 3 stars just for value as a $80/pr system.

My first set of speakers (trading up from plastic $5.00 5 Watt Yorx 1-ways) was a pair of Yamaha NS-A636's. Even with my (then) very limited audio background, these speakers were a major dissapointment. After paying over $250 for them, I was expecting at least a little bass. The bass cutoff is 90Hz!! WHAT KIND OF BASS IS THAT!?!? The _thin_ paper woofer has some sort of cheap flimsy _cloth_ surround! The midrange was ferro-fluid cooled, and therefore tinny, harsh and yet muddy too. The tweeter is average for that price range though. :)They could not play very loud, they weren't exceptionally clear, and they were much too expensive, 6 month's later I replaced them with Cerwin-Vega AT-12's (not exceptionally clear either I know, but they outperformed the Yamaha's in EVERY WAY, even clairity!).
I love Yamaha's components, but they should leave the speaker making to someone else.
The NS-A636's should be avioded at all costs! For equal or even less money, you can get Paradigm Atoms or Titans, or PSB Alphas and get stratospheric performance in every department.

mike s v7q2@unb.ca