At first I thought mine was excellent, the quality is much higher than the recent ES-355 in that the tuners feel more heavy duty and hold tuning, and the input jack doesn't crackle, and compared to the dot the nick is slimmer and feels faster to move around the frets. Unfortunately I have discovered an intonation problem I can't fix myself. The low E is flat at the 12th fret and the saddle is fully back. And the A is sharp at the 12th and the saddle is fully forward (I flipped that one for extra distance). I guess "setup in the USA" didn't include intonation! Is it possible to fix such a drastic difference in scale of these 2 neighboring strings?
update: I read it might have been sitting in the factory since August so going ordered some D'Addario EXL110 to see if old strings are the problem.
update2: I received D'Addario EXL110 strings today and tested the A string, moved the saddle back to its original position and the intonation is perfect! Will restring the rest tonight.