Yes, you were very fair, oh arbiter of all that is wonky & poor workmanship!Too be clear, he did get off with just a warning.
Ummmmmmm SONOR!
Hows that chocolate inner ply? Sweeet!
Take that SIGNET 105
Too be clear, he did get off with just a warning.
Yup watch those camera angles Bill, they could hurt you down the road. : )
Is there any indication as to where the NAMM floor models are going to?
Who get's them?
Thanks for the admonition. But do you really think that someone like Bernie Stone is going to put out something that's total crap?
It seems that you are the "Arbiter of Quality" around these parts. Maybe it's you to whom I ought to send a snare drum to for review. You game? Because I'll do it.
I don't know anything about Bernie Stone, but by the same token we didn't think Ronn Dunnett would let his name go out on the ($2k) POS aligned LUDWIG CHIEF either. I saw a ten lug DIXON snare drum in a shop priced at $100/new, all the lugs were laser straight.
Yeah, pretty much I am the most active officer in the lug splay division, but this forum is loaded with quality control-police, and many more willing than I to review a Bernie Stone snare drum.
Since you're the guy in charge of the website Bill, my advise which I've been crowing all over this forum to manufactures is: Use your site to promote product with pictures. A pic 'is' worth a thousand words.
Take shots (with a good camera) of the drums heads off, sideways, macro the insides of the lugs...you can't show me enough. Exhaust us with pics, then we'll be more inclined to take the next step.
fisheye aberration
It's not a snare, but here's the picture I took of the Stone kit
Other than re-size the photo to smaller size, I didn't adjust anything!
But maybe I should disclose BillRayDrums was standing next to me when I took it. lol.
Also known in lesser amounts as "barrel distortion." However, the picture of the Stone drum exhibited pincushion disortion, which is quite the opposite. It's like the photo sucking in the fat.
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I also didn't find anything that stood out much above anything else. Signet was new in concept, Tama had some nice but costly reissues, DW entered the direct drive pedal fray, Pear had some sweet new snares, and Sakae expanded their offerings, but nothing truly groundbreaking or amazing or "must-have" as far as I could see.
Lots of coool stuff for sure, but nothing in the "you HAVE to see this!" category.
Bermuda