Do you know how much grief I took when I photographed the BMR's with the grills on, and they came out looking grey? So many emails assuring people they were really black. I kind of like the contrast of grey as well, but I think we're a minority opinion.
If he's talking about the 'tha-ck tha-ck' sound of wood,I would hazard it's probably because the sound generation continues in the wood past the initial peak and the gain required to capture all of that would require a very large dynamic range to encompass and a noticeably high noise floor from the intense gain. So unless you're dedicating a mic to that sound and then spending time trying to clean it up out of the rest of the mix by doing signal differential stuff from the other mics, you'd end up with an unusable recording (at least in the raw form).
Thanks! This is really interesting and makes sense. At least part of it is in the recording and mix.
It's true, most music is delivered through inexpensive speaker amplification. A good home amp and speakers can easily do better than the typical music venue.My guess is you're a percussionist. In your head you hear a certain sound when playing and you're not experiencing the same exact sound on speakers. If you were a vocalist or a horn player you would feel the same way about these sounds on a speaker. Musicians are the hardest group to please with a speaker system until they understand that a great sounding speaker is good enough and it's not going to sound exactly like being on the drum set.
Most music is delivered via speaker amplification. The audience (non-musicians) think it sounds great but the musician playing will rarely think it sounds identical to them playing acoustically.
Personally, I think "Track 5 - Drum Solo" from "The Link Alive - Gojira" sounds amazing on the Revel F328Be.
And the space is completely different as well.
That drum solo sounds great! It makes me think domes aren't so bad on drums that are recorded well.
I'd say 99.99% people do not listen at 85dB or above level. I tested one of the BMR harmonic distortion at 90 dB (OmniMic is accurate in dB reading) and I have to wear ear protection. In my Home theater, I usually listen at 65 dB with some scenes the volume would be higher. Before I actually use a dB measurement tool, I don't really know how loud I'm listening. When Dennis and I did the Capital Audio Show last November, he was demoing the Tower's super bass capability by turning the volume way up to shake the room. When we switch to regular track, we forgot to turn down to the normal volume, that instant, the Tower was driven by full power of the NC400 in the demo room. Every one was shocked because of the super loud volume and also the clean clarity of the sound. We immediately turn down the volume to "normal" to not shock everyone. That is to say for a very short instant (almost like a reflective thing), extremely loud volume can shock us to cause reflective action. The high output higher frequency is.....
Don't want to nitpick too much, but I'd bet that 99% of users of this speaker, which is a niche market already, will have material that exceeds 85 dB when their average SPL is around 75 dB. It's not going to be every day but they would encounter those levels.
That's probably true. But as I read those graphs, the issue doesn't really show up until 102 dB. Frankly, I was surprised at how well the tweeter help up at super-90 dB levels, and I haven't encountered any audible distortion in the bass at what I consider uncomfortably loud levels. But I'm perfectly OK with a conclusion that the BMR monitors aren't extremely high output devices.
