YAMAHA NS-AW150BL 2-Way Indoor/Outdoor Speakers (Pair, Black)

Yamaha's compact NS-AW150 bookshelf speakers offer an affordable way to enjoy your music or television programming on a deck or under a porch. These speakers can also be brought inside during the colder months and set up indoors, as their high build quality and good sound make them equally suitable for two-channel indoor listening.

Each speaker in the pair features a 5-inch high-compliance, polypropylene, mica-filled woofer and a 5-inch PEI dome tweeter. The drivers are optimized for high rigidity but low mass, resulting in reasonably high sensitivity (80 dB with 2.83V at 1 meter), which means modest amplifiers won't have much trouble driving them. The acoustic-suspension cabinets are sealed to prevent undue resonance or tubby, tuneless bass, which often results from low-cost ported designs.

With a nominal impedance of 6 ohms, the speakers will work nicely with amplifiers up to 35 watts per channel, nominal, or 120 watts, peak power. They boast a frequency response of 80 to 40,000 Hz (+/-3 dB), providing decent bass output for their compact size and unusually extended high-frequency response for your most demanding digital media.

For indoor use, you may want to consider adding a subwoofer to enhance the bass performance; be sure to select one with a variable crossover so you can tailor its upper frequency to effectively "take over" at the point of the NS-AW150s' lowest deliverable frequency. The speakers are magnetically shielded, allowing you to place them on or near a TV or video monitor without fear of picture degradation.

Five-way binding posts simplify connection with various speaker cable terminations (including banana plugs), and the NS-AW150s even come with two lengths of cable to get you started. While you wouldn't want to leave the speakers exposed on, say, the deck of a boat, they are water resistant and designed to withstand light wind and rain, thanks to their sealed enclosures and rugged metal grilles.

The speakers come with mounting bases and brackets, making it easy to install them in a variety of outdoor and indoor settings. In the box, you'll find two speakers, two lengths of speaker cable, speaker bases, mounting brackets, a warranty card, and a user's manual.

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