We bought this over a year ago. My wife doesn’t use it much but I do and it’s been great. Decent whip and the knurling is present enough but not too aggressive. When workouts call for two movements or multiple weights I load up mine and hers and besides the smaller diameter I don’t notice any quality dropoff. Granted my barbell is a relatively cheap powerlifting bar from 2013 I dunno if my ‘bar’ is very high anyway.