I'm very pleased with the purchase. The sound from it is very very loud and sharp...Quality is top notch. I use it for gigs. Before this I had Yanagisawa 6 metal mouthpiece,and this is like 50% louder,not kidding...Only thing I don't like is ligature. Supplied Daddario ligature is very bad for me,screws are hard to turn and it scratches the beautiful palladium plating on a 350 euro mouthpiece which I cannot allow, so I ordered Rovner Versa ligature