I researched a lot of humidors before settling on this one. For the money, I'm very pleased. Someday I would like to upgrade, but this will take me through many years. It was larger than I envisioned and looks gorgeous in our study. It took several days to get it up to proper humidity levels...we put our home digital humidity guage inside the box to make sure the hygrometer was correct...it does work great. We ended up purchasing some activator solution at the local smoke shop and that moved the break-in right along, but expect it to take about 4 or 5 days to get to the right level. A solid hudifier on a budget!