It is the quality that you would expect from China. Nothing bad at all but definitely not at the level of say my Nord which is more hand made individually. Still a nice unit but don't throw it around and a case would be recommended as it may get beat up a bit. I would say that it is well worth 300.00 any day of the week, and you don't have to use it all the time as the SS will work fine without it in the small to medium size venues, however I will say once you do use a sub with the SS you probably will not want to not use a sub with the SS if you know what I mean.