Hi and thanks for the question. I demo'd a different ecr50f than the one I bought and the sticks felt normal to me on both of them. I am not an expert operator and have only run a handful of machines, one of which is our HX145LCR. The sticks feel pretty similar but the sensitivity on the 145 is much slower, meaning the sticks need to be moved much farther then the 50. Not sure this helps you but from my experience the sticks seem normal.