From DW:
What if there was a travel kit that didn’t sound like a travel kit?” What if that kit was just small enough to be travel-friendly, but also substantial enough to sound like a ‘real’ drum set should? After, literally, years of R&D and discussion, the sizes were agreed upon: a 12×20″ bass drum with low-mass spurs and lightweight ratchet bass drum mount, an 11×14″ floor tom, a traditional 8×12″ rack tom with STM, and a matching 5×14″ snare drum. The kit also comes standard with True-Pitch® tension rods, MAG™ throw-off, True-Tone™ snare wires, and DW Heads by Remo®. As is the case with all Design Series™ drums, the shells consist solely of North American maple with no reinforcement hoops.