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3. Sonor SQ2

Sonor really kicked the whole modern designer trend off back in the 1980s. The SQ2 is the culmination, with the online configurator encouraging you to spend hours designing your dream kit. This is the stereotype of German design and engineering brilliance incarnate. The excessive hardware might give you a hernia, but it always looks fab.
Read the full review of Sonor's SQ2 kit

2. Pearl Masterworks

Pearl's everyman image takes a bashing! Exclusive Masterworks lets you completely customise your kit with a different blend of maple, birch and African mahogany and four thickness options for each shell. Alternatively there's a maple carbon fibre mix, then you get the option of black chrome or gold plate, and so on...
Read the full review of Pearl's Masters Custom MCX kit

1. DW Collector's Series

DW was the big success story of the American drum industry after the huge downturn of the '70/'80s. The company boasted timbre-matched shells with sumptuous finishes, supreme attention to detail and total awareness of what drummers need: that easy-to-tune, rich maple sound. All these elements combined to see DW's deserved reputation rocket.
Read the full review of DW's Collector's Series X Shell kit

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