Back in 2005 the Jil CR2 lights made a big bang in the flashlight world, essentially giving great performance, along with great, great quality, at an unheard of price. Nowadays, they may not seem so inexpensive, but a fews years back the Jil CR2's price was rather ground breaking. To get a Jil like light, back then, you had to get an expensive custom or an Arc (also, somewhat custom and expensive.). The Jil gave quality and performance at half the price. They are, in my opinion, premium lights and rather fantastic ones. I've had a few and loved them all. There are tons of people on CPF that have them and many people that are still looking to buy them. If you search hard enough, you'll find some SUPER long threads (which may have been the threads leading to the policy of separating long threads into multiple parts) on them.