Anycubic Chiron vs Flashforge Creator Pro

but having worked in injection molding plastics I'm particular about my "customer facing surfaces". I think they could have gotten there with this printer with maybe $100-$200 more in hardware to stiffen it up and make it work right "out of the box". I'd gladly have paid $700 if it worked with less tinkering on settings

If I step outside of the studio room, I can easily hear the Creator Pro, and faintly hear the BIBO. If I go upstairs, I can't hear the BIBO, but the Creator Pro's noises can faintly be heard through the HVAC vents. You won't notice it if there's white noise upstairs, but if the house is quiet, you'll hear the Creator Pro running no matter where you are in the house. All said and done though, I don't regret buying this printer and would recommend it to a beginner who knows that 3D printers aren't magic boxes, and even an expert, given the community behind this printer and modifications available for it

8mm nozzle with good results. I'm now happy with the printer and wanted to voice my quality control concerns since it set me back a couple months of troubleshooting/waiting for parts to get it working again.

I also see a lot of people reccomend the Prusia mk3s. OP, these are great printers but I want you to understand what you are paying for when you buy the printer. The I3 (bedflinger) design is one of the cheapest designs on the market and a Prusia mk3s probably costs about $500-$600 (US) in parts but the rest of the cost is people checking all the electrical components to see if they function properly, research and development into new iterations and for extensive, high quality customer support. If you buy the prebuilt then you will also be paying for someone to put the printer together and run a ~2 hour test print to make sure the thing works