Having played cane reeds all my life I decided to try synthetic reeds for the first time. It gives the sax a noticable to the player sound and feeling as well. It's a bit different to what I'm used to. Has a bit darker sound that I'm used to and it projects more than the cane reeds I use. Was a bit too resistant for me, which was a bit weird, because I used to play 3,5 vandoren blue box. Definetly interesting and new sound for me, going to have to explore it more to give a more definitive answer but overall, they sound great, last for a long time and can be easily played in outside setting because it doesn't dry out in the way cane reeds do.