Amazing! I have one of these snare drums and I bought it about 5 or 6 years ago.
About a year after I bought it, I went looking for it on the Internet so I could get another one as a gift for a friend. I could never find it.
When I bought this snare on Ebay, it was $90 new. It was called a Titan snare. When searching for this Titan later, I could only ever find those cheap Titan kits.
What your looking at there is an inexpensive Chinese snare. Seamed shell with a fold over bearing edge. The throw off is like the PP BOB throw off. The hoops are heavy and make this a pretty heavy drum. It's built like a tank actually. Single point lugs with shitty little gaskets but all the chrome is decent and luckily mine came with no imperfections.
I have a Remo CS on top of a clear Ambassador and I swapped the snares for some copper Puresounds.
The snare sounds fantastic. The heavy hoops dry the drum out quite a bit and it is not at all ringy like my PP BOB. I'm sure the hammered shell also contributes to this dry almost woody tone, but instead of making the drum quieter, it actually produces good volume and cuts very well.
Of all my snares, it is the one that guitar players I've played with (that like to play loud) like the best. I'm always amazed how when switching out snares, guys I've played with for a long time, ask me to put this snare back on the kit. The cheapest snare I own!?!
For $90, it was obviously a great deal and it is an excellent sounding snare. For $265, I don't know. Some web retailer sold this boat anchor to me and probably made a little money. That's quite a price increase. The model designate suggests it's a 6 inch drum. The specs located later in the text say it's a 6.5 inch drum.
It's actually a 5.5 inch drum (unless they made or make them in different sizes) I doubt it.
I think they made thousands of these drums years ago and they have been a blowout overstock item for distributors for a long time.
I think for $265 you can find a lot of better and same or better sounding snare drums. This is the perfect snare to buy if you can get it for $100 to $150, but not more.