Preferred joystick/button combination

[aliveon2legs]

I'm trying to decide what joysticks and buttons to go with on my cab and was wondering what everybody thinks is best.  I've read every thread that I could find on this and mostly what I learned is not to buy an ultimate joystick.  Most of the threads only discussed Happs.  Are there other brands that are better quality?  Same thing with the buttons, the only things I require is that they are concave.  I really want what is going to be best overall for all games, not just geared toward one genre, although I will purchase a seperate 4-way for pac-man type games.