The price/value ratio is very good, I don't think there is any need to change the pickup, the Korean pickups have a good sound and the wood materials used also look good. I have several more expensive guitars and these cheap Pasadenas are not ashamed of them. I bought two of these guitars, in one of them the tremolo structure got stuck in the tremolo cavity, it touched the body of the guitar, the cavity had to be widened at home. So it may happen that, thanks to the Chinese production, you have to touch it after the purchase, adjust this and that, but I think it's still worth the price.