Tin Pan Alley and Thanks to You- which speakers play the tap on the snares the best?

I’m an ex hard rock drummer for over 40 years. From the late 70’s, everytime I went to audition new equipment, I would take in music that exposed the drums: Tom’s, snare, bass, and all the different cymbals. 2nd requirement was how the bass guitar sounded. I wanted to hear the difference between a ride, crash, hi hat and splash cymbals at the same time the bass drum decay. In the 70’s, I bought the ess speakers with the heil air motion transformer, to the more current Revel BE speakers and the Ushers with the DMD tweeters

@toddalin that snap is great. Do you know what speakers are being used?

@saummisra

My own design/build/modifications using JBL 2241 18", JBL 2251J 10", and modified ESS Great Heil AMT.  The soundstage and imaging are among the best I’ve ever heard.  And they are even better now than when the video was made.

But my Super Big Reds also capture drums very well!

https://youtu.be/iGa9259pz-I

Boring easy/safe tracks...not good for evaluation of a high end speaker. To evaluate if a speaker is any good or not (worth the cash or not), you should play difficult tracks, the kind that the guys at shows would be scared to play, lest it shows everyone that their speaker is crap.

Tin Pan Alley and Thanks to You