I bought one of the original ones a couple weeks ago and didn't notice the "better with braid" comment, until I got home. I put it on a rod with mono and it seems to nick the mono with every wrap of the line. Not sure how well it's going to work like that. Love the idea of changing depths easy, but you can do that with the clip on oval corks. I do like the sound of it though with those different pieces. We'll see.