For a while now I was searching for a good student violin but I didn't want to spend too much money as I'm still very new at this.
I've read and watched several reviews about student violins and the Stentor SR1500 was practically always named as one of the best options, if not the best.
Now that I've had the chance to play on this for a while, I have to say, the sound as far as I can tell is very good for its price range and the build quality is solid.
The violin comes with rosin and a bow in the case and even though both are of good quality, to get the maximum out of the instrument, I recommend upgrading these along with the strings at some point, but this isn't a must, with some tuning it plays perfectly fine out of the box.
To summarize, I would highly recommend this violin for (semi-)beginners because it's good to go as is and can last a lot longer during progression after replacing the standard strings with higher quality strings. All this for a very affordable price.