If your really about that life i'd recommend the hori. They have the best joystick period. The budget sticks have cheaper parts, though they are easy to mod with actual good parts...but if you are going down that route might as well cop the hori cause a cheap stick plus mods = same price as a legit one give or take.
Just a note (im assuming maybe you've been outta the loop?) the joysticks we had in our arcades are different from the japanese sticks that are the standard of today. Lot of USA arcade cabs had Korean style 'bat top' sticks. These are ball tops. There are still Korean peeps and other people who fukk with bat top, especially Tekken players. But I dunno id still recommend the regular JP style.
Just a note (im assuming maybe you've been outta the loop?) the joysticks we had in our arcades are different from the japanese sticks that are the standard of today. Lot of USA arcade cabs had Korean style 'bat top' sticks. These are ball tops. There are still Korean peeps and other people who fukk with bat top, especially Tekken players. But I dunno id still recommend the regular JP style.