I use it for a week I had to order it in the United States as found in the hexagon. This snare drum is 30 years old so the sound it gives off can really be a good condition to be prepared to spend a lot of time to the rules and pampered, get to know and do not hesitate to remove the screwdriver when necessary. Once tamed it becomes a weapon of mass destruction, I tried a lot of metal snare before purchasing this one and never had I felt such a presence, even in the middle of two guitars and a bass saturated a wish she knows to be respected and heard, maybe this is it aluminum effect. In any case it adapts to different types of skin tones according to him is, she was not at all the same way of singing with Remo Emperor X was the first drum head that I tried aquarian response and II. You may say that this difference is normal and it's true but still more pronounced than on the snare today for my taste.
Basically it is a snare fundamentally good but can not be fully expressed with a fine-tuning of the voltages of skin, a 1 / 8 of a turn key ready you can lose the superb sound that has just finally to find the grant is a challenge but once the result is a record up to expectations. For the sonic potential it holds I think the price is not excessive.
And I would tell you when I would have definitely tamed if it's the choice I would do but for now I do not regret my purchase.