I don't reccomend the Stephenhouser brand. My local music store carries them, and supports them. They are ok with a nice tone and a little weird with the "new technology patents" but the intonation isn't good. Basically, a student can't control the intonation, and a pro is going to buy a much better horn.

No, I don't know how many times I've said this... DO NOT BUY FROM DOMINIC!!! He sells basically the same horns you see on ebay for 500 bucks, some are the exact same (moniques for example). Those horns are crap, they wont hold up past 6 months and dont soud that great to begin with.

I finally decided to stretch my budget and ordered and YTS-62II from music123. Incredibly enough, they dropped without much negotiation the price from the 2230$ to 1800$, which I stated it was my max. budget. I think I'll open a thread about this to make aware the members of this board: do not click and buy but negotiate the price at music123 (or wwbw which now is the same company). I don't know if I got lucky, but chances are that you will too! Best of all is their return policy: 45 days! I just wonder if they set up properly the instruments before shipping them (not sure...) but Yamaha have a good reputation for playing just out the box. Another plus: they ship to different addresses from your billing one. Big plus for us Canadians with friends or relatives in the US!