They do sound different. To me they are really dry and dead sounding. I didn't like them at all. I tried it only on snares, both a wood and cos Ludwig. My take - 2 thumbs down. They had some on clearance at my local Sam ash...that's not a good sign about their popularity.

I have used them on a modern kit (sharp double 45 edges) and they were great. Plenty warm with reasonable attack and sustain and better durability than standard single plys. I suspect they may respond better to sharper edges. That said, they dont have the big attack or focus of emperors and were finicky about tuning. YRMV.

You could be right. I tried them on a 65 Slingerland snare, a B&B Rogers snare and a 70's metal Ludwig. No sharp edeges there!

I put one on my 8X14 Ludwig maple snare.The sound is pretty nice.Had to tweak it a little higher than a regular Ambassador

if you want a little bit fatter sound, I would suggest CS-sound in stead of ambassador X......however, a friend of mine used them on DW collectors, and they sounded veeeery good for rock applications!!!

Thanks for the help. Bowing I appreciate it!