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This is a 9 years old post, I doubt the OP still has the kit...

I've always wanted a Pearl BRX, but when the time came to buy a pro line kit they had discontinued that line (along with others)...

Good points you are making here.... Another thing that also bugs me about drum companies of late is that almost everybody uses shallower...

I have no clue who makes the "best" now, but it saddens me to se birch being so much out of favor for most companies, usually they put...

This is truth. Birch is/has been regulated to lower end kits and or they don't push the quality of sourced birch as much as they do with...

Just as in maple, trees grown in a colder climate / shorter summer grow more slowly, & produce a more dense lumber.

Looks pristine! Mine has a slight deformation within the mechanism, so it can't be used with the stock wires. I tied generic length...

Yup, they do. It’s COA with the’flo-beam’ snare mech (I think it’s late 70’s/early 80’s based on the badge). I just naturally adjust...

Holy smoke, my Prem 2000 has a parallel snare action with 2 tension adjustments...I’ve owned it for 32 years and have never given it a...

There are vectors at work when parallel action is at play, unlike the normal throws, if it is stressed at one end, the moment of stress...

I'm thinking it has to do with stretch. If you center your wires, then engage the snare, the wires are no longer centered but pulled to...

Lol my drums are made of SM57.

These questions are just as difficult to answer as they are compelling. Subjectivity and sound are often inseparable. Expectation can...

Not abstract or subjective, and relatively easy to do. Measure the amplitude and envelopes of the frequencies produced by a repeatable...