You get what you pay for. Those Peavey SP-5G are bullet proof. When I worked retail we used them after trying every other brand under the sun for rental rigs (where you will be amazed what kind of abuse rental equipment takes) and had no problems ever (except the time someone dumped them in a lake and had to fish them from about 15' of water, and in that case new baskets and they worked great {retail of replacement baskets were about $50.00 a peice at the time).