well Zarrdoss, a very helpful post mate. im going to see whats on offer and go try some out. might end up building my own. I was actually looking at a crush fully acrylic kit a few days ago. looked lovely.
If you havent seen it already Id say check out the Pork Pie 13x7 Amber Acrylic snare.
I love that size snare nice crack but still with body and punch tons of them on guitarcenter.com
I use the Crush 14" acrylic. I love the drum. Here is some video of it in a live context. This is when I just got it and was still dialing in the sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWNsC-572kQ
The only problem is I recently noticed a bunch of cracks between the bottom and top lugs! Argghhh. Probably used this drum less than 10 times live. Going to contact Crush- I think they put the top and bottom lugs too close together.