Feature:
The guitar came with its case and keys. I think its a super hi-value for money guitar. In fact its easily worth much more. The case is quite good. The construction quality of the guitar is simply awesome. I've opened it up and inspected the wiring etc. I do this with all my guitars and have changed pups on my other axes several times. The wiring is excellent. The grounding etc is very very good. The guitar is almost noiseless. Very professional. You could use this one guitar for the rest of your life and never have to change.

Quality:
Its fantastic. BEST quality guitar i've ever played. Its like an Alien-Medieval weapon. It could withstand a nuclear war.

Value:
BEST value in the market. By far.

Desirability:
Its easily the sexiest guitar i have. I show all my guitars to my students and visitors. They see my other guitars and say "wow", "awesome", "very nice" etc When I open the Xiphos case and show them they only GASP. Its that hot.

Sound:
This guitar has a very well balanced sound. The mahogany neck thru body gives it TONS of body and super sustain. Even unplugged, you can really play this guitar and hear every note in fast passages. It has tremendous clarity. I've used this guitar live on stage and It cuts through the mix very easily. I play a variety of musical styles and compose in them all. Heavy metal, death metal, fusion, rock, jazz, blues etc etc This axe shines in them all. The sound is very distinctive. Its very clear and strong. I have used this through a bunch of different amps, Marshall, Line 6 etc and it sounds great through all of them. The pickups are DiMarzio deActivators. They are really good and drive any amp. They're very hot without ever being distorted or unclear. I think they're DiMarzios best pups IMO. I've played the others as well. You'll love the neck pickups in particular. Its warm thick and flowing. Very smooth with a great response. The bridge pickups is hot and crunchy with great definition. Pinch harmonics etc just fly out of this very easily. These have the output of active pups with the finesse and character of passives. Palm mutes sound so good with this guitar. You'll feel like chunkhing out riffs all day.

Ease of Use:
This guitar is the best playing guitar of all of my guitars. I have 7. Fenders, Gibsons, Ibanez's etc. Its a joy to play this. The neck is ultra comfortable and guitar playing feels easy and joyful. This guitar is really easy to play. A lot of players have complained about the strap pin placement. I've adjusted to it and its fine for me. You can get it adjusted if you like. Its not a big deal.

Support:
Wont need it.

Overall:
I'll want to buy a bunch of these guitars. I think i'll buy on in each color in 2 year periods. Its the pinnacle of guitar evolution.

Feature:
Tremelo is great, it does not have a floyd. It's an Ibanez Edge III. For me it took a while to get used to but ask someone that has/knows about these and you'll pick up on it easy.

Quality:
Great. The quality is just so good. A lot of people complained about where the knobs are to hold the guitar in place while playing standing up. I never touched it, It's fine. I play fine standing up, i rest my arm a bit at the edge and it stays. No problems with it

Value:
WORTH it. Trust me. Great sound everything

Desirability:
The color. The X Shape. what isnt as sexy as this thing ? haha

Support:
I didnt need an upgrade. Just didnt know how to tune this right and stuff, So i had someone froma guitar shop help me, they adjusted the action and the springs in the back. Works great now.

Overall:
This is the best guitar i've ever played imo. It's very great, I've played a lot of songs on it, fast neck. What that guy said yet he doesnt own it but still gave it a good review..i'd cry if someone stole it, yet i'd by another because its worth it that much.

Feature:
The paint job is a feature all in its own and no picture on the internet can do justice for how this paint job looks in real life. Single binding on the fretboard and headstock add a nice touch as well as the reversed headstock and shark tooth inlays. All in all, this adds a lot in the way of features. Don’t forget the excellent cosmo back hardware! That’s a pretty good feature as well.

Quality:
Import guitars shouldn’t have the stigma that they do. To me the quality of this guitar is top of the line. I fell in love with it the minute I played it and it hasn’t stopped yet. The finish was spotless and the nut was crafted with great quality. The fret job was excellent and the frets even looked to be polished. My local guitar store sets up their guitars before putting them on the floor for sale so I can’t say how well it was set up from the factory.

Value:
This guitar is worth more than the asking price!

Sound:
The guitar has an excellent mid range tone that makes it extremely great for metal playing. The passive D Activator pickups act like active pickups without the sterile sound. The compressed tone that you with EMG pickups shined without the harsh overtones of an EMG pickup. I’m not really a full time metal player and I like to dial in a good blues tone and this guitar did the trick with an expressive neck pickup. The tone control does just that: controls the tone and in a world where most guitars have a tone knob that does little in the way of shaping tone, this guitar delivers with a great cap for tone shaping.

Ease of Use:
I’m used to guitars that are oddly shaped and tend not to balance well. This is one of the better ones I’ve owned as it balances great in the sitting position but tends to dive slightly on the strap. The neck is perfect and is a bit thicker than the RG type Wizard II neck. I personally feel that the knob placement is in a good spot and the tremolo arm doesn’t get into my way. Upper fret access could be better but I play rhythm mostly so it doesn’t impact my playing that much. However, if you do go into the upper register a lot I’d suggest trying it out before spending the cash just to make sure it doesn’t both you. I can reach every fret with my pointer finger but in a live situation I don’t know how comfortable I would feel. A lot of people complain about the Edge III tremolo but most of those people don’t understand how to set one up properly. Once set up this tremolo will give you tons of fun. Any full floating tremolo can give you headaches if you don’t have them fine tuned.

Support:
I've never used Ibanez support which means I've never had to. The best support is support that you never have to use!

Overall:
I’ve had Ibanez guitars built like this before and I fully expect to have this guitar for a long time. It’s about time Ibanez got back to the XV500 days in their quality and their design! Rock on Ibby!