At first of course it looks just awesome, exterier is fantastic. Unusual one.
This snare has very great steel / chrome finish and that makes it rock.
Yeah, you have to be pretty carefull to not make it dirty with your fingers becouse finish is like a real mirror, but that's nothing. I prefer to use gloves while I am taking it out from hardcase and installing it to protect it from any dust/ fingerprints and keep it perfect clean.
About sound I can tell that it is amizing for this price. Actually it is really cheap for so brilliant, bright tone.
Tone is very universal for lot of music gandres.
Punch is powerfull and very easy to tune it up.
At begining I was scared about this size becouse before I usualy used much smaller snares, but in life it's just amizing, looks prefect and quallity is very very good.
This is my first product from Ludwig and I am suprised about this style, sound, quallity performance. Difinitaly soon I will buy other stuff from Ludwig. I am very satisfied.
I definitely recomend this one, don't be scared of the size if you are, this one is prefect and just right for you.