I have a Babylock and a Viking embroidery machines but my neighbor has the Janome 500E embroidery only machine and it comes with some nice size hoops and I was impressed with how the back looks, almost as good as the front. My Babylock and Viking machines can't say that. Also the price of the Janome was around $3,000 in case you're interested in checking it out. Think it comes with a free program to download to transfer your designs from your PC to the thumb stick. It is a nice machine and I almost bought it myself after I saw how well it stitched out.