I usually buy what sounds good to me and what I can afford. I've been playing a maple 6.5x14 Pearl Masters snare I paid $225.00 since 2008. I've had a couple others a DW Edge Neil Peart Signature that my wife bought me. She paid $1025.00 for it new when it first came out. I hated it. The Pearl sounds better. I ended up trading it in for a Ludwig classic maple kit 26 kick 13 ,16, 18, toms. I've also had a PDP 20 ply snare , and a crush acrylic snare. Both sounded good but not as good as the Pearl. Had to come back and edit: when I got that ludwig kit I bought a Pearl Ian Paice signature snare to go with it, that snare sounded great also , it was a metal snare so it wasn't as warm as my maple but it still sounded great. Trust your ears.
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