The sound is full with pleasant mix of bright/dark tones, making it suitable for more music types, especially rock and derived genres, however it gives the top when played from medium loud to very loud due to its thickness. I have been using it for rock/stoner/doom music and despite guitar/bass are saturated sound, this crash does still stand out for its bright tones but at the same time it sounds dark and not very bright and clean. Additionally, the veining and the color are super nice. So, overall, lovely HH for loud music with very good good price too, like other 900 series cymbals.