Getting too good at sounding like a band of non-vocal instruments.

I think it's quite impressive that groups can do this, but when they do it, they lose the a cappella character. This is the reason I didn't buy Committed's first CD. I listened to it since my sister bought it, and it just sounded like a bunch of synths and stuff with guys singing to it. It didn't sound to me like their best sound on the show. Maybe it's time for a second listen, I don't know. But this is what I'm getting from a lot of the groups on the show now. Like the first half of Monday's show. All of them sounded good and technically were fairly on point. (I don't care what the judges said. They were pretty much on it with their rhythms and harmonies.) But it didn't have that velvety, blended sound I look for, at least, when I listen to a cappella groups. I thought the groups that did this best were Filharmonic, Ten, and AcoUstiKat. Even though I thought Ten took the tempo too slowly with "Tell Me Something Good," "fonky" though it was. Others were decent too, but the harmonies these three groups produced had me pretty much the whole way. We'll see what things these other groups come up with on different songs, though.