This snare is new. I took it out of the box to inspect when it was delivered and it sat on my bench briefly before being stored in a padded bag, where it has lived since. I never played it. I originally bought this snare to compare to my DW Collector's brass, because I'd heard such good things about the Kompressor snares, but I just never got around to it. Now we're downsizing. Will ship in original packaging.