Prior to getting these, I had been using the v16s, and while those did offer a good warm sound, during gigs, my chops wold wear out within 2 hours (playing alto) and with these, I'm able to keep a consistent tone, quality, and range for upwards of 3 hours

Vandoren has always been my first choice of reed as its quality is usually (if not always) exceptionally good.

So far, the quality seems good (I'm a sax player, so I guess I'm used to a percentage of reeds not working so well, no matter what the brand is)

We were looking for good quality reeds, but the local music store was extremely expensive.

The quality was very good and I would order these again.