New series is here: Momentum! Beech, Birch and Maple shell options!

[drummermark]

No word on pricing. These will be in stock globally in mid-November.

A local dealer here is saying between $4800 - $6000, depending on shell pack configuration.

[krusher74]

This is just a spec SQ2 set.

I'm sure it's dealer/store sales driven.

When you offer a customer something like a SQ2 with all the options and wait time, you lose sales.

These are just to save the stores from having to spec SQ2's for stock and trying to guess what a customer wants.

These will be an in stock "SQ2" you can sell to a customer that day.

Sonor sure has written some bullshit about them, though!

"2025 sets an important milestone in SONOR’s 150-year history. It’s a year dedicated to the company’s legacy, past and tradition, but also the time to look towards innovation, evolution, and new creative horizons, as they are as much a part of SONOR’s tradition and DNA."

Your 150th product line has been terrible, and I can't see any "innovation, evolution" in this set

[James Fullier III]

Sonor sure has written some bullshit about them, though!

"2025 sets an important milestone in SONOR’s 150-year history. It’s a year dedicated to the company’s legacy, past and tradition, but also the time to look towards innovation, evolution, and new creative horizons, as they are as much a part of SONOR’s tradition and DNA."

Your 150th product line has been terrible, and I can't see any "innovation, evolution" in this set

Agreed.. I am sure this crew running the company are nice people but if I was in their meeting when they are coming up with the "marketing" I would of been laughing at them and then quizzing them on detailed Sonor attributes of the past to see if they even know construction details about the drums from long ago. There is some young kid running the sales direction fwir which doesn't mean he is not qualified but does he really know about hardcore Sonor from the past and was he really the right choice ?

[Jack]

For sure, Dave. With what's offered on SQ1, Prolite, Vintage series and Momentum, which offers the biggest spread of options in one series, seems like it would narrow SQ2 sales. Guess if you're dead set on sizes & wood/shell combo that isn't accessed through an existing series, it's the only choice. ie. a 22x15 vintage shell, birch bass drum. Maybe some will compromise in the eye of (potentially) less cost. Like..... get the 22x15.25" Momentum bass drum in Birch which medium (6mm instead of 6mm +2mm re rings on vintage shell accessed through SQ2) against the prior example.

To my previous post: Prolite and SQ1 are being discontinued. So that'll leave SQ2, Vintage series and Momentum. Feels weird to not have a Vintage Maple shell series there (Delite/Prolite) ...

Pricing: a 3 piece shell pack in matt black 22/12/16 no mount is £3399 on Thomann to UK.

What do you all think of the name?

[tcbetka]

For sure, Dave. With what's offered on SQ1, Prolite, Vintage series and Momentum, which offers the biggest spread of options in one series, seems like it would narrow SQ2 sales. Guess if you're dead set on sizes & wood/shell combo that isn't accessed through an existing series, it's the only choice. ie. a 22x15 vintage shell, birch bass drum. Maybe some will compromise in the eye of (potentially) less cost. Like..... get the 22x15.25" Momentum bass drum in Birch which medium (6mm instead of 6mm +2mm re rings on vintage shell accessed through SQ2) against the prior example.

To my previous post: Prolite and SQ1 are being discontinued. So that'll leave SQ2, Vintage series and Momentum. Feels weird to not have a Vintage Maple shell series there (Delite/Prolite) ...

Pricing: a 3 piece shell pack in matt black 22/12/16 no mount is £3399 on Thomann to UK.

What do you all think of the name?

Name is fine with me--I don't really care what they call them. I'm not a huge fan of the gold mallets on the logo badge though to be honest. Sort of looks out of place with most of those finishes. But whatever.

Sit down, shut up and play the drums...

[Jeremy Bender]

Made in the Germany factory -Yay (Happy they're making these in-house)

Medium sized shell thickness- Yay (I owned a Birch Infinite kit had & those shells sang)

Ability to mix different wood types within kit -Yay (I'd choose birch toms and maple bass drum)

No bass drum tom mount - Boo (I like a 4 pc kit at times)

Depth of 22"' Bass Drum - Boo (14 or 15" would be more practical for gigging)

White finish looks classy!

[tcbetka]

Made in the Germany factory -Yay (Happy they're still making new series in-house)

Medium sized shell thickness- Yay (My birch Infinite kit had those & they sang)

Ability to mix different wood types within kit -Yay (I'd choose birch toms and maple bass drum)

No bass drum tom mount - Boo (I like a 4 pc kit at times)

22"' Bass Drum depth - Boo (14 or 15" more practical for gigging)

White finish looks classy!

Wait...I read as there were bass drums both with and without mounts. They're listed one after the other in the PDF, as I recall.

EDIT: Yeah, just went back and looked. The MT suffix means mount and NM means no mount.

[James Fullier III]

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This one is pretty darn nice looking

[Jules]

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This one is pretty darn nice looking

This is my favorite too. I am not a wrap guy; but if I was, the wrap is beautiful too!

[James Fullier III]

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This one is pretty darn nice looking

This is my favorite too. I am not a wrap guy; but if I was, the wrap is beautiful too!

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That's a wood finish.. (you probably already knew that) It's Alpi and I know they call it "California Burl" but it looks like a darker stained version of Walnut Roots.