At first, I was looking for a rack system, but after looking at the dimensions and virtually placing it in my home gym, I thought the rack itself ruined my gym space completely, protruding into the room about 6 feet off the wall. People looking at rack systems should probably have a room at least 20' x 20' before even considering one, and then it would still be a pretty ominous obstacle to work around for doing anything else in the room. This caused me to look for a cable cross-over machine that attaches (braces itself) to wall studs, and projects into a room no more than 3-feet. This fits the bill. It's pretty high quality, and being new, it's already way better than the run down commercial equipment I've been using at the gym. Even with heavy home use, I can't see it ever getting beaten up to the point where it's going to get as bad as a piece of poorly maintained commercial gym equipment. The guide rods are heavy solid steel, and the weight mechanism glides smoothly on them. The pulley's are dead silent, with the only noise you hear being the ball bearings gliding up and down the steel rods. I realize I'm sacrificing a few features of the rack system, but I'm gaining a real cross-over with a lot of the same functions as the rack provided, while also saving a lot of space. I think if you did a survey, most people would privately say they'd rather have a good crossover machine over a rack machine any day. This was also way less expensive than a rack system of comparable quality. I also want to say that when I bolted everything together, none of the steel tubing buckled or dimpled. When sliding a square tube over a square stub before bolting it all together, the holes lined up perfectly, which impressed me a lot. I'm an engineer, so I'm fussy about sloppy tolerances and this thing went together better than anything I've ever assembled myself.