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Philharmonic BMR Towers, Follow Up Review, frequency sweeps and Room Treatments

Mort said:
That's pretty modest if it's a C weighting. I think the bmr towers will be fine with adequate amplification.
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I think I've been over worrying. Found a sound level calculator and it says they should be able to get to 99 db at 12 feet with 100 watts. It also has the same 86 db at 1 meter as the Mofi and both are 6 ohm. I'm sure that speaker can get loud enough. I think that seals the deal for me.
 
Bass heavy music will be tougher to drive, if that's your thing. Then 99db might be optimistic. I get 95db 6ft from my big genelecs with heavy bass. But still, you'll be fine.
 
Chanur said:
How loud do the BMR Towers go? That's my one concern about them. I prefer the look of the BMR by a lot. I have a sub but it's a pretty cheap meh sub so was hoping to not have to use it really. How ever everyone mentions the limited volume on the BMR Tower and it has me concerned. Not that I listen exceptionally loud or anything but every now and then you want to crank it a bit.

I plan to use which ever for my living room home theater and 5.1/2 channel music system.

Would you have kept them if the space was not an issue?
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They get more than loud enough for me

Email Philharmonic. They’re very responsive. benchmark audio also has numerous online calculators. I’m ne does exactly what you need
 
Chanur said:
I bought the BMR towers and got them this weekend. They are amazing. Everything everyone says they are. My wife and I sat listening to music for 6 hours the night we got them. That was impossible for us in the old Klipsch.
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NICE - pics and descriptions of setup? Are you able to pull them more than 1.1 meters from the front wall and side walls? Even still, I'd highly recommend DIY corner bass trap/s. $145 to $200 for incredibly improved bass response is insane ROI.
 
Chanur said:
I bought the BMR towers and got them this weekend. They are amazing. Everything everyone says they are. My wife and I sat listening to music for 6 hours the night we got them. That was impossible for us in the old Klipsch.
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Welcome to the club, Dennis designs stuff that defies the price point... The beauty of it: even the "cheap" speakers are crazy good ... Bmr monitors are my " final solution " ( I have a small room ) ..
 
tw 2022 said:
Welcome to the club, Dennis designs stuff that defies the price point... The beauty of it: even the "cheap" speakers are crazy good ... Bmr monitors are my " final solution " ( I have a small room ) ..
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interesting that one person on another forum said the could not get the monitors to play louder than 85dB and that they heard bad resonance especially during female vocals.

They did have second hand BMR Ceramic monitors so I think one or more of their drivers was damaged
 
jmdesignz2 said:
interesting that one person on another forum said the could not get the monitors to play louder than 85dB and that they heard bad resonance especially during female vocals.
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i'm going to say it: the person that couldn't get the bmr monitors above 85 db *either* had a driver issue , a broken crossover(like maybe a shipping issue), or he was somehow mistaken.. I've heard the monitors.. they eat 85 db for a snack...at 95+ db you start running outta gas...
 
Mort said:
I'll take the under. Great monitors but with subbass limited volume.
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fair enough , but I think it would be very close to 95 db , Erin would have mentioned it if they weren't able to handle spl... that may have been the version 1 though, but the same principle should apply in general, they're gonna be voiced very similarly..
 
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tw 2022 said:
fair enough , but I think it would be very close to 95 db , Erin would have mentioned it if they weren't able to handle spl... that may have been the version 1 though, but the same principle should apply in general, they're gonna be voiced very similarly..
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I don't hear any issues with my version 1s around 95db when playing music without the subs. I cross them over @110hz when playing movies.
 
Guys, we are talking about a garbled paraphrase from some other forum with no link and which is almost certainly about the Ceraminc Mini Monitor, not the BMR* Monitor.

*misspelling corrected!
 
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MarkS said:
Guys, we are talking about a garbled paraphrase from some other forum with no link and which is almost certainly about the Ceraminc Mini Monitor, not the BRM Monitor.
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actually no- that other forum poster was talking about the most recent gen of the BMR Monitor (3 way with Ceramic Woofer) I confirmed it. Although, they were annoyed at resonance they claimed they heard on on particularly badly recorded track. I am thinking the more revealing nature of the BMR ribbon and mid-range drivers revealed more than they liked thus the already terrible track sounded even more terrible. As to their comment about running out of gas at 85dB I can't speak to that. But they did say they were using an Pontus II which is an R2R NOS DAC. Anyone have measurements of those?
 
jmdesignz2 said:
actually no- that other forum poster was talking about the most recent gen of the BMR Monitor (3 way with Ceramic Woofer) I confirmed it. Although, they were annoyed at resonance they claimed they heard on on particularly badly recorded track. I am thinking the more revealing nature of the BMR ribbon and mid-range drivers revealed more than they liked thus the already terrible track sounded even more terrible. As to their comment about running out of gas at 85dB I can't speak to that. But they did say they were using an Pontus II which is an R2R NOS DAC. Anyone have measurements of those?
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Do you have link? I built mine but that shouldn't matter and unless there is damage to drivers. I'm confused what the poster heard. I took painstaking steps to ensure the bmr driver was "overly" sealed and the application of the damping materials.
 
Everett T said:
Do you have link? I built mine but that shouldn't matter and unless there is damage to drivers. I'm confused what the poster heard. I took painstaking steps to ensure the bmr driver was "overly" sealed and the application of the damping materials.
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Built? No, this other person had issues with the speakers that are the most recent generation of the three way monitors which Stereophile ranked Class A

I am leaning heavily towards them not liking how revealing they actually are for bad source materials.
 
jmdesignz2 said:
Built? No, this other person had issues with the speakers that are the most recent generation of the three way monitors which Stereophile ranked Class A

I am leaning heavily towards them not liking how revealing they actually are for bad source materials.
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I didn't purchase mine from Dennis, I built them. Yes, I can see how someone who isn't use to a reveling speaker would have a hard time with bad tracks.
 
Everett T said:
I didn't purchase mine from Dennis, I built them. Yes, I can see how someone who isn't use to a reveling speaker would have a hard time with bad tracks.
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when did you buy/ build yours and whose plans? Can you post some pics and details?
 
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