I still haven't quite figured out what it is about the new runs of Jabos that I find unappealing (besides all that orange in most of them). Maybe it's too much aventurine, or they're too dark, or the colors don't blend well enough, or the color combinations aren't right. Whatever it is, they just don't seem to "work", IMO. I bought a couple Aces recently, and even though they looked pretty good in the photos, in hand, they don't do a thing for me.