I'm not a Rogers Guru by any stretch of the imagination but I do own two Dynas. Without the frame and wires in good shape around $200. The snare frames are available occasionally on ebay they bring a price of around $75. Original wires are far rarer then the frame and bring top dollar. Puresound makes a decent replacement. Putting them together and tuning them is pretty easy. IMHO they don't sound as good without the frame. Hope this helps I'm sure the experts will correct any misinformation I provided.

I would buy frames and original wires together for 75 bucks every day of the week, if I could swing the cash.

100 is a great deal. 125 is a good price. 150 ....... oK, but high.

1961-64... maybe 200 and youve been lucky.

Several years ago I bought one like this off of ebay going in blind, not knowing a whole lot about the Dynasonic. I bit the bullet and purchased the correct parts to bring it back to original specs. Mine was a later Fullerton era, so I went with the short frame that Al Drews sells on Ebay, and got the later one piece lower hoop as opposed to the one with the removable "tin" guards. I also used the Puresound snare wires for the Dyna. I gotta tell you, it was like night and day. The drum sounded ok without the snare frame, but wasn't crisp by any means. My goto supraphonic was more crisp sounding than the Dyna was.....Until.....I put it back to original specs and set it up properly. Once I understood what the designers were trying to accomplish with their design, and how to set it up properly, the whole snare frame idea made perfect sense!

And WOW! What a glorious sound it made! (And this coming from a longtime Ludwig fan!) Super responsive, and crisp! Now, I was restoring this one with intent to sell from the outset. I did sell it, for a slight profit at the time (it needed new lugs too) but I wish I had kept it. Now these are going through the roof, so they are a bit out of my price range.....

Moral of the story from one Ludwig guy to another.....put the drum back to original, you won't be disappointed! ;)

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You wont be dissappointed.

That rhythm teck thing is a pos. Its not worth the effort.

Thanks for the advice guys! It looks as though he's wanting a bit too much for it, so I'm trying to work out a trade deal if possible. Failing that, I'll try to find a complete one at a decent price.

How will a dynasonic compare to a Ludwig Supersensitive? I lucked out last year and fell bass ackwards into a COB supersensitive (cut B/O badge), thinking it was a ludalloy model, only to be pleasently surprised! I'm loving that drum, and I can only imagine that a Dyna would be at least as nice.

This is going to become my next obsession, I'm sure...

Dynasonic snares dont have a snare bed, so dont work very well at all without the snare frame IMHO.singer