I recently wet through an iteration on what glider to purchase. I love the original thought in the JS-1; Antares and even the Genesis, however each of these companies only had one type of aircraft and so far 2 of the three are out of business. Look at what happened with LS series and the LS-4; LS-6; and LS-8 were all must have gliders. Glaser-Dirks went under only to be purchased by a businessman, but not really sure if they are selling anymore 800's or 1000's. If the manufacturer has not withstood the test of time I am not a buyer. I think the only two manufactures I would consider are Schempp-Hirth and Alexander-Schleicher. Just this reporters opinion. It is a shame that both the last mentioned manufacturers do not have any single place open class offerings. Schempp designed a beautiful open class bird, but was in bed with Lange and now the Quintus is dead along with Lange.