It's been over a month, and I can tell you that after 40 years of playing, and having owned just about every friggin' type tuner there is, NOTHING (no bobbing needles, blinking bulbs, rotating lightshows, strobo-anything) comes close to this. I simply wanted to FINALLY have one of the absolute best tools for intonating and tuning - that's all!!! I think we can all agree that a strobe of this caliber, qualifies? Whoa you guys!! No scientific/theoretical thought went into this!!!. I'll have some fun with it experimenting for the next few weeks, but now that I have it, I REALLY think it was worth the price - even though it will only be selfishly used for tuning and intonation my own guitars. and you CAN hear it!! Now I can FINALLY find out if, or how much intonation changes after a string change (including different guages), a neck adjustment, etc. I already have a Peterson StroboStomp™ on my pedalboard, but after fooling with this new strobe for about 30 minutes, there is really no comparison! That digital stuff is fantastic, but there's something about the accuracy of that high-tolerance, 'quartz tuned' spinning wheel!!. :salude I won't gush - you guys know what this is, but it's accurate to 0.1 cents, can be custom configured ANY way you want, and can handle temperaments out the wazoo! :dude: After years of feeling guilty, and thinking that this was an 'extravagant' and unnecessary purchase because I would only need it for personal use, I finally broke down and took delivery on my first 'professional-grade' strobe tuner!! A Peterson® 'AutoStrobe-490'!! (click HERE).

Peterson autostrobe 490 strobe tuner