How does the drum kit sound on your rig?

Live drums are as dynamic as the drummer wants them to be...if all drummers just pounded the crap out of the kit it would be a boring and monodynamic world. I've worked with a LOT of drummers over the years and the best have a sense of dynamics and tone that makes you want to hear 'em, and rarely do the great drummers sound anything but right...unless you're lying on the floor under the drum kit there is no need for earplugs.

I don't think any home system is going to really do drums. I mean the REAL THING.

If this is true, then why is there so much effort expended on high resolution audio (24 bit) and high quality vinyl if any home system cannot even replicate a drum kit? What is the point of all this pursuit of high resolution (16 bit to 24 bit equates directly to increased dynamic range) if it cannot be delivered to the listener?

The new formats of high resolution audio allow us to hear what the sound engineer can hear in the studio - why then does this not demand that the amp/speakers be capable of the same level of quality?

"I don't think any home system is going to really do drums. I mean the REAL THING. "

I think it can come close enough to not matter for most.

Depending on room size and other factors though, you need some combination of bigger, better and more efficient drivers in a suitable housing combined with sufficient power (not underpowered or powered to some minimal specification designed more for mass marketing appeal than for performance).

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It doesn't have to sound real to sound good.
Even if the sound is compressed, it can still hit with a BANG!
If the sound can't go BANG then much is missing.
To say that drums are easy to reproduce is wrong. To me they are the essence of good playback. The color of the toms, the shimmer of the cymbals, the kick of the bass,
brushes on the snare, a choked highhat. Whew!
If the system can do these it can do a lot.
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I agree...recorded drums can actually sound better than live since, unless you sit in the drummers lap, rarely does an acoustic space produce a balanced sound. I have been successful with the simplest miking for a jazz drummer by using a kick mic and a single large diaphram condenser above the kit.