Listening to the samples it hard to say that one suffers over the other, so the statement that the cmr's suffer beyond the drop in sensitivity is just silly, i actually like the fact that they are have a little lower sensitivity, it comes in very handy when recording extremely loud metal/rock bands in small venues and seems to be very nice with quiet acts as well with gain added from the tinybox, feels like Nicky is trying to piss on the CMR parade, each(nbox and cmr's) has its place and followers, like me, i have had a nbox and liked it but it really bothered me the amount of power it consumes and found that i didn't like the fixed gain and size but I would never tell someone not to give it a go or smear it intensionally, its a great unit but i personally think the cmr/tinybox is awesome as well and i now have many quality shows under many conditions that only confirm this.