No offense taken, The sound is probably the quality of the file, because the local guys that have heard it said its the best sounding muffler they have heard on the car and it sounds a lot better driving, that is why I will soon get a drive by sound file. As far as the tips, that is the beauty of this set up, you buy the tips you like and install them yourself. It would be too hard to please everyone. One of the guys that just bought my exhaust went to advance auto parts and said they have a real good selection of quality stainless steel clamp on tips that have an internal clamp bracket that clamps to the muffler tip and then you screw the tips into the bracket so the screws and the bracket are hidden, making it look like the tips were part of the muffler. He brought it by to show me and they are almost double the width of the muffler tips and an oval round shape and they looked pretty damn good. He said they also have round and square ones. They are real short so they don't stick much further than the muffler tips and sell for about $8 each. Also, the beauty of my system set up is the muffler clamps on to the pipe so you can slide the muffler in or out about 2 inches, in case you find longer tips, but don't want it to stick too far, you can loosen the clamp and slide the muffler further in.