This is the reincarnation for Yamaha into the high end audio scene, and they really mean it.

There is a very distinct tonality and presentation that the 5000 series offers, and it is totally complicit with their long time "Natural Sound" moniker. This amplifier and loudspeaker combination has a huge performance envelope, from late night study space meditation through to live music sound pressure levels this offers a very compelling sense of the original musical performance.

There have been times at the Hi Fi Shows where we have been playing this system at acoustic performance levels in a room of 40 people in a fashion where normal high end audio would have been in danger of bursting into flames or driven into clipping destruction of loudspeaker drive units.The NS5000 loudspeakers and pre and power amplifier remained unflappable.

This kit is a gauntlet being thrown down by this Japanese company to show us what they can really do when their massive musical engineering R&D resource is thrown behind the products. They are beautiful.

Herewith the system that we had on display at the last Stereonet Melbourne Hi Fi Show, yes it won some formal recognition ...

And here is a typical roomfull of Melbourne Hi Fi show visitors, we could happily play Otmar Liebert Flamenco at live levels even with all this passive womble flesh acting as a sound absorbent medium ...

And here is a typical roomfull of Melbourne Hi Fi show visitors, we could happily play Otmar Liebert Flamenco at live levels even with all this passive womble flesh acting as a sound absorbent medium ...

And here is a closeup of the Yamaha tonearm that is entirely differentiated on operation and geometry ...