HERE is a highly qualified and capable customer on 'cloud 9' with the performance of his T.H.E. mics. He wants anybody looking for truly stellar microphone performance to know that they NEED to include T.H.E. in their short list!

"This is one amazing microphone! With a good set of headphones it's difficult to discern the difference between the monitored signal and the real thing. Initially I found myself cranking my headphones to be sure I was monitoring the signal and not listening to my source bleeding through the circumaural cups of my phones. The capsules are amazingly quiet, excellent for field recording ambient sounds and, to my ears, have a very smooth frequency response. So far, most of the recordings I've been doing with the BS-3D have been location sound recordings.

Since I have a pretty weighty set of gear already -- Tascam DA-P1, Sound Devices MP-2, 2 Eco-Charge batteries, plus all the necessary cables, headphones and a boom stand -- having something that was easy to set up and begin recording on the fly was important. With the BS-3D all I need to do is place my head where I like the sound best and set the mic up there; no more schlepping t-bars and adjusting for XY or ORTF (and none of the source proximity problems inherent with those setups.) Not only does the BS-3D look nice, but it's a solid unit and so far has been able to handle the ruff and tumble world of EFP usage like a champ. I also must attest to the BS-3D in helping me to overcome my fear of binaural recording. In all honesty I had some trepidations about committing to a stereo technique that's almost synonymous with headphone listening. Being someone who enjoys monitoring through a decent set of speakers over headphones any day, I was worried that my recordings would not be as impressive without musical ear muffs. Not true, the recordings I have made thus far with the BS-3D have rivaled the imaging and clarity of all the previous stereo recordings I've made. Keep up the great work Taylor!"
-Byram Abbott

"People always react to the BS-3D. "What's that?" "It's a microphone?" "It looks like something out of the 1950s." "..the BS-3D looks more like a piece of high-tech sculpture than a microphone."
"The advantages of T.H.E.'s approach are economy and theoretically less noise and distortion."
Over the course of several weeks I used the BS-3D as a room/audience mic when recording a live jazz combo and as the primary microphone for classical chamber music and orchestra recording. The virtues thus revealed included exceptionally deep bass response, good reproduction of room ambience, smooth midrange, and sweet if not totally neutral treble. The BS-3D has a definite character-on the warm side in the lower midrange, with a slight rise in the top octave. The overall sound is very beguiling, if sometimes a little soft-edged.
- R. Auld

This microphone is as invisible as microphones get. There is no discernible noise. Zero. Unless you grossly overload it (screaming Henry Rollins tunes, or shoving it way into a 26" kick drum managed to achieve that) there is no discernible distortion. There's no discernible nuthin' except musicians in a room.

".. Somehow T.H.E. has managed to produce a microphone that achieves what mics were first invented for: archiving reality."
– B. Ross