This is why I say the best. I use a sonor bras snare with sonor wires tht cost 3 times as much. I decided to experiment with gibraltar, cannon and puresound one day just to see if price makes a diffrence. They did... but not to puresound. These sounded no diffrent than my sonor snares that came in a wood box. I am impressed. The sonor snare to me is the standard of reference and I and my audience couldnt hear the diffrence live or recorded and I mic both sides of my snare drums. I will always have one box of sonor snare wire at home but couple of boxes of these at the studio or stage.

These might be very well made with fancy copper ends, but after purchasing the Custom 20 strand model for my 14" snare drum, I wasn't very impressed. The drum sounded sounded only marginally better than with my stock snares, and I know what I am doing when it comes to changing snares and tuning/tensioning snare drums and wires. I then tried the Gibraltar 42 strand snare wires and was much more impressed with them! And, they are less than half the price of these. For the price, I was not impressed AT ALL! Buy the Gibraltar 42's; those are much better and cheaper.

I recently bought the 20 strand Puresounds, and I must say that they made a tremendous difference in the snare sound. I was skeptical at first because I wasn't about to dish out $32 on a set of snares. But the results were worth the money. I have a Starclassic Performer snare and it sounds even better with the Puresound wires. Get these...you won't be disappointed!!

I have a set of these on my Pearl Masters BRX 14"x5.5" snare drum and it has a powerful sound. I also put a power thin snare batter on too. This combination with the 100% birch shell is amazing. It`s sensitive so it can be played light with good snare response and ghost notes are very nice. If you want to play loud, go ahead you wont choke this snare wire and you can get a loud crack out of it with no problem. Puresound Customs are the best.

Very versatile snares, can be used for rock, jazz, r&b, and others. Very durable.