After lot of years using the original buffalo skin conga head on my Luis Conte 1134 series, i decided it was time for a replacement. I saw lot of professional percusionists using the skyndeep model, this conviced me that this is a really good product. After trying it, i'm more than happy with the result. Not excessive harmonics. Sound comes more easy and now i end up with my hands more relaxed after gigs. The texture is reeeeally nice too.