After a few years playing, I decided it was about time to change my begginner mouthpiece (Selmer C*) for another one with a bigger opening. There are thousands of opinions in the web that vary from "It doesn?t matter, your sound will be the same" to "people have gone crazy with mouthpiece openings and now they are comming back to a middle point". And I believe this mouthpiece is just there. If you blow hard it really sounds, but you can also play mellow and some of the lower register I had a bit of trouble with has improved. I wasn?t sure between this one and the Jet, but I decided not to have a baffle since it seems that most of my favourite players do not use it.
By the way, I use it with a sinthetic legere studio #2 wich has been the greatest discovery. I may say that I have tried at least five different types of normal reeds in different hardnesses and this one works right out of the box. No sanding, It doesn?t break and the sound if one of the best I?ve had so far.