Speakers/monitors for Music, Instruments and TV

[Chicken Chaser]

Just wondering if I can cover off most bases with one set of speakers or monitors.

I have a digital piano, guitar (with Helix floorboard which emulates real amps and cabs) and would like to hook them up to a set of speakers in a dedicated room. Additionally, these speakers would be capable via another means of playing music as well as hooking up to the TV.

I did think of getting some 5 inch monitors for the instruments, something like JBL or Yamaha but not sure it they would be suitable if right outside their field of performance. Also, I'm not sure how well monitors would connect to a TV.

Has anyone got one pair for all uses? The musical instruments are a bit of a curve ball hence the question, or else id have just bought a pair of Sonos speakers!

[GravelBen]

Yamaha NX-N500 powered bookshelf speakers might suit if they're still making them - based on Yamaha active studio monitors (each speaker is bi-amped) but with built-in wifi networking, aux and optical inputs etc added, and presumably a retune as they're more forgiving of lower quality sources than most monitors. I have a pair and rate them very highly.

https://europe.yamaha.com/en/products/audio_visual...

ETA: the aux input is only a 3.5mm rather than a 6.3mm or XLR so I guess you'd have to use a 6.3>3.5 plug adaptor to connect instrument leads. Though depending how fancy it is the digital piano may have a direct USB out to connect that way?

Edited by GravelBen on Monday 6th May 07:05

[Chicken Chaser]

Thanks for the suggestion, I didn't even know active hifi was a thing! The Piano does have USB out but I've not used it for audio, I've tended to just use the phono connections. That's actually opened my options quite a bit. I like the fact that it's also got a Bluetooth option for playback.

[mgv8]

Monitors will tend to give a very flat response, and HiFi will not. You will just need an amp that can give the sound colour (if you know what I mean) when TV is on and take it away when just playing instruments.