An interesting short and sweet review.
I think an important note to make is that Dennis, as I understand, isn't designing for high output. I've seen him mention on occasion, a Decibel Nightmare.
I know that when I turn it up, I am usually not pushing above 80dB peaks: I usually listen at -10dB on my Marantz, depending on how hot the source may be. On occasion, when I am watching a movie instead of listening to Music, I will push the system at near-reference level. I can't say that I've ever identified a point where I felt the Speakers are not handling things well at those levels.
My BMRs are the ca. 2018 version as reviewed by J Larson on AH, not the OG pair originally reviewed by Erin, nor the newer version just reviewed above. I also have the Phil3s in my system as of May 2019. For 6 months, the BMR Monitors were my mains.
FWIW, when endeavoring to make recommendations, I always find it worthwhile to ask about the users SPL preferences. As we all know, Speaker design is a matter of tradeoffs and finding the perfect pair is nigh on impossible. Extreme SPL is not the goal with the BMRs.
That said, I have never felt myself in want of anything more with any of my gear from Dennis.
I think an important note to make is that Dennis, as I understand, isn't designing for high output. I've seen him mention on occasion, a Decibel Nightmare.
I know that when I turn it up, I am usually not pushing above 80dB peaks: I usually listen at -10dB on my Marantz, depending on how hot the source may be. On occasion, when I am watching a movie instead of listening to Music, I will push the system at near-reference level. I can't say that I've ever identified a point where I felt the Speakers are not handling things well at those levels.
My BMRs are the ca. 2018 version as reviewed by J Larson on AH, not the OG pair originally reviewed by Erin, nor the newer version just reviewed above. I also have the Phil3s in my system as of May 2019. For 6 months, the BMR Monitors were my mains.
FWIW, when endeavoring to make recommendations, I always find it worthwhile to ask about the users SPL preferences. As we all know, Speaker design is a matter of tradeoffs and finding the perfect pair is nigh on impossible. Extreme SPL is not the goal with the BMRs.
That said, I have never felt myself in want of anything more with any of my gear from Dennis.