The cymbal arrived in fine condition and has a smooth, silky finish to it and is patterned with holes.
For most of the time since I bought it, I have had it on top of a cheap, 8" splash cymbal to create a really trashy, cutting stack for use in progressive and heavy genres.
By itself, however, it sounds quite different to most normal 10" splashes because it is much more high frequency and trashy without having the sustain of a huge china cymbal. My only concerns with it are the fact that it sometimes bends slightly, but this doesn't affect the sound at all and that sometimes the stick gets caught in one of the holes! No problems overall though!