Thanks Don and everybody else who weighed in on Enya... sounds like the dream of a radiused fingerboard on an inexpensive ukulele is too good to be true.
I think this is the wrong conclusion...it IS true. The X1 series has a radius fretboard. What may not be “true” is that you will prefer a bowed neck.
I owned a very nice Cedar Pono for about a year, which I bought and sold here on UU. It was (and still is) a gorgeous instrument...but I never really connected with it and while that model had the radius fretboard, I preferred the KoAloha sound of my Opio Tenor and KoAloha’s straight fretboard doesn’t bother me at all.
Besley was kind enough to donate his Enya to our school, and that instrument suffers from a slightly bowed neck. Without kicking up a hornet’s nest, we have NOT seen any other issues with Enya necks on these forums or the others I follow. But I can attest that the thing is bowed. It is playable, but the bow likely decreases any benefit of the radius.
I also have one of the Enya X-1camp ukuleles that were $29 last summer (in addition to the 13 I bought for my school), and the neck is wonderful to hold on that instrument, and the fretboard has a radius, but I woudn’t say I prefer it over my Martin S1 which does not have a radius fretboard.
But I am 100% certain that there are players who find a radius fretboard more comfortable to play, and I wouldn’t buy or not buy a ukulele because if its radius fretboard. I’m more likely to pass on a ukulele because of how the fretboard is decorated (e.g. some of Bruce Wei’s inlays are too much for my tastes).