HBV 870BK 4/4 Electric Violin : Priceworthy and a good first buy

Pros:

- A complete kit, works out of the box

- Decent sound, at least good enough if you're playing in a rock band or have a gig with the need of an electric violin

- Won't cause acoustic feedback in a PA-system. At least for regular use. With this we could have regular monitors instead of a headphone monitor system.

- With a little bit of tweaking (read below) its a really decent violin!

Cons:

- The bow that was supplied with mine was heavy unbalanced so I bought a carbon fibre one instead.

- The strings supplied works, but when I changed them to high quality strings I realized how horrible the supplied strings was. I would recommend everyone buying some better strings and restring the violin as soon as possible.

- The output jack calls for a 90 degree angeled phono cable. The supplied cable (which my sound technician called a "licuorice strap") is working for training but I had to have a better one on my first gig and with a regular phono cable you'll get the contact in your shoulder. Keep that in mind if your planning to play on gig, I think most technicians would call for a better cable and then you'll want a angled one.

- After 1,5 years of use the phono contact got loose and needed to be repaired.