Bought my NS-5000's from Shelley's last year. We have also seen NS-5000 in parts at Yamaha's Innovation Road museum in Hamamatsu, Japan. The display says it was designed by a team of young engineers. The tweeter and midrange are 4 ohm designs. The woofer is 6 ohms. Max input power is 600 watts. The mitered plywood and deep gloss finish are straight out of their grand piano division.
The woofer is the most vivid I have heard in terms of revealing instruments. It barley moves even at high volumes driven by 500 watt Ice Module monoblocks. The dome midrange is an ingenious low mass solution.
My problem was my wife refused to buy a speaker taller than she is, 5 feet even. That rules out many fine choices. She was up at the desk paying for these before I had made my mind up. Three of a kind drivers are what those young engineers achieved. It spoils you.
