Tama PMM146 Starphonic Maple

A student of mine brought this Tama Starphonic to a drum lesson.
He wanted me to tune it, witch I did, but on the way there I totally connected with it. The consequences where that I have had a drum like that on my snare stand in my classroom since I got it from Thomann.
The Tama Starphonic Maple is a very nice and versatile snare drum and the look is quite unique.

The build quality of this drum is excellent.
But I've been dealing with too many overtones from it since I got it.
Tuning it to get the sound I wanted was difficult, possibly due to the "Starphonic" hoops, which I didn't really like.
I prefer the sound of a less expensive Tama Starclassic Performer Maple/Birch snare that matches my drum kit.

On my current snare, a factory-installed Evans G1 head sounds great. But with the Starphonic, I had to dampen it to reduce the overtones.

Excelent snare .. strongly recomended
1. excelent design - really nice
2. excelent sound (used in rock, praise and worship style)
3. excelent tuning - very sensitive, easy to tune
Maybe there are more expensive snares and maybe these are "better", but this is the super choice .