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Another big Acrolite fan here- but they're not going to be exactly like Supraphonics.
The one thing very good about them for your purposes is they're aluminum or Ludalloy- Bonham insisted on that and not chrome-over-brass. With Bonzo you're hearing an aluminum or alloy sound, which gives it air and focusses the attack in a special way.
Acrolites will happily do that but I find the sound sort of drier, funkier- less imposing, more fun. Definitely less intimidating. Perhaps because the fewer lugs make them lighter, hold the rims less rigidly?
I believe Nick Mason is hitting an Acrolite in Live at Pompeii on 'Echoes', including on the Backbeat Of Doom section where Gilmour and Wright trade solos. The airy, mind-numbing CRACK of that backbeat has been a touchstone for me for ideal drum sound for years... not that much like Zep, but in the same family. To do Zep, for starters the snares will be looser and the batter head might be as well...
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