I won't say HW is better than Tekin or Castle, but I will say they are on par. HW as a brand has been unknown until recently (only been known in the past year and a half or so), but they were making ESCs for other US brands prior to then. The SP systems get rave reviews on their smoothness and those are just rebadged HW ESCs. The only area that I see HW is clearly inferior in compared to CC and Tekin is domestic customer service. If they can set up a US master distributor, that will be resolved as all issues would be handle domestically. But I contacted them before about that and they don't seem to want to go that route...they want the individual retailers, but that makes it costlier for the retailers to import their products and individual retailers don't want to invest into the customer support needed for complex electronics.

As for Caster, I like them fine. I really want a F8T, but I can't get one until I sell my Tekno Losi 8ight-T. If anyone wants it, let me know...or if hakmazter can help me sell it, I'll definitely pick up an F8T!