Yamaha HS10W User Guide

HS80M/HS50M/HS10W  Owner’s Manual

This is the type of connector most commonly used in 

professional equipment and installations. 3-pin XLR-type 

connectors like the ones provided on the HS-series 

monitors are primarily intended for use with balanced 

signals, and their solid design and construction ensures 

maximum electrical and mechanical reliability. 

The HS-series studio monitors also feature 1/4-inch 

phone jack connectors that can be used for either balanced 

or unbalanced connections.

For balanced connection via these jacks you’ll need to 

use balanced cables fitted with TRS phone plugs — three-

contact phone plugs that are basically the same as 

standard stereo phone plugs with tip, ring, and sleeve 

contacts (thus the “TRS” designation — see the illustration 

on the left.)

The phone jacks will also accept unbalanced signals 

—simply plug in a standard mono phone plug. But what if 

you want to connect equipment that only provides RCA-

type pin connector outputs? The solution is simple 

enough: use either RCA-to-phone plug adaptors or RCA-

to-phone cables, and plug into the speaker’s phone-jack 

inputs.

If you’re connecting your HS 

speakers directly to a mixer such as 

one of the Yamaha MG-series mixers, 

they should usually be connected to 

the mixer’s “C-R” (Control Room) 

outputs so that you can control the 

monitor level without affecting the 

level of the signal sent to the mixer’s 

main bus, which will usually be 

feeding your recorder or DAW 

(Digital Audio Workstation) in a 

production type setup.