I have a 5.5 x 14 Renown in Black. 8 lugs and now with Stick saver batter hoop. Great drum. Are you looking to buy?
I have a Purewood kit (African Mahogany) and my snare is 5.5x14 10 lugs - pretty much no snare beds - and is one of my very best sounding snare drums. Sure...it's not Maple but most of the sound in a drum comes from the hardware...heads/hoops/bearing edges (mine is 30ceg as in the Maple I believe) and tuning. It's sensitive - a very nice all-round snare drum...solid with high quality parts.
I had the 6.5 x 14...10 lugs. Very good drum. After a few years with metal-only snares, wanted to go back to something wood. I now prefer wood. I bought it for $200 on ebay and it served me well.
The throwoff was a little cheapish but other than that it played and sounded well. It has no muffler, if you like those things. Its a good solid all around drum, was nice at all tunings and easy to tune. I dunno, depending on the price you're paying, you might find some other nice drums in that price class. I sold mine for a profit - to get a 5 ply maple snare that was much cheaper and sounded the same.
hope that helps
Can you recommend me a maple snare that price class ?
Well the Renown is fine, as you read above. The Tama SLP maple, might be a little more $$.