Just recently became acquainted with this rather expensive hobby/habit athough I will have to spend a lot more to come close to any of the components on my audio rack. As for Surefire, yes they seem expensive. I have 3 G2L's, an EL1, EL2 and now an L1. The EL1 does feel a bit small in the hand...
Well, it just arrived today and I must say that overall, I am quite impressed with this light. I'm sure my initial impressions will be reinforced after dark.
I have some Surefires as well as Fenix, Pila and a Novatac on the way. I bought a quantity of "cheap" Tenergy batteries as well as some Rayovac and Surefire. I tested all batteries with a digital multimeter as well as a ZTS pulse load multi battery tester (great little unit imo) and out of a lot...