I bought this to replace an aging MIM Strat that finally gave out on tour, and it has not left my side since. The noiseless pickups are the real story here — I play a lot of small clubs with dimmer switches and fluorescent lighting, and the 60-cycle hum that plagued my old guitar is just gone. The locking tuners have kept it in tune through three-hour sets in humid rooms, which matters more to me than almost any other spec on paper.