Dave is right. However many people go Daves route and buy a cheap violin until they feel ready to upgrade. I actually believe that some of these fiddles are so good that you may not feel the need to upgrade. The problem is that you can't test them out before ordering them online. If one person gets a great violin from a manufacture and you order the exact same one there is no guarantee that it will be as good. They are made of wood which is a live material and never exactly the same. Also the bridges and sound-posts are cut fast and differ greatly from one to another. The strings are the cheapest possible and the chin-rests are very flat. These things are easy enough to change though. However, a violin with little, or a bad sound is very difficult to change.

Still, if I knew that I could get a CVN200 that sounds just as good as the one that I have at home, I would order another one and bring it to my luthier for a new sound-post. Even though I have a great violin, I really like the sound of this one and am pretty sure that it would sound many times better if the post was in the right position. It's too short now and very close to the f-hole. Also, playing in a violin makes an enormous difference. They need to be played on to open up.