I have two of em as well and take great delight in leaving them in their cases most of the time.They can be a sod to tune and have only one (questionable ) advantage. In a noisy sesion you CAN hear what you are doing, though no one else in the session will any thing but YOU.As any one who knows me is well aware, for me to say any thing is too loud, then it must be a lot TOO LOUD.