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I'm not going to mention any brand but I have played some guitars that I would not take home with me. Some guitars that we consider high end and some that some people claims play above their weight class.
Let's just say we all have different tastes and like different sounds and we even like how our guitars are set up individually.
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I used to have a used DP/W that I picked up at a good price from one of the forum sponsors. It had upgrades to bracing and glues but never seemed to quite live up my expectations of the high quality brand. Maybe I just expected too much.
I had it tweaked by a highly skilled technician and he agreed. It was never going to be more than a satisfactory specimen. I guess those plain Janes come in every wrapper. Maybe I will try another guitar from this maker soon since I have traded this one away. Last edited by SugarmillMan; 12-29-2016 at 10:34 AM. |
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A/B'd it against the Irish-made Avalon A-201 (also a cedar/EIR 16" small-jumbo) that I wound up taking home with me that day - I played while my wife listened, then vice versa... Was the big-buck box better than my well-under-$2000 Avalon...? To our hands/ears, not $12K+ worth...
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Cognoscenti ??
Don't they build violins or something in Italy?
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The question itself is very subjective.
Certain brands are very good, in the right hands. In my hands those same guitars sound just like guitars that I don't buy. By the same token, a lot of some brands sound bad in the store, but somebody gives them a chance. You run into that same guitar a year later and it's wearing better strings and it sounds amazing. There are guitars that most of us now avoid because we've never played one that blew our skirt up. But you've heard that same guitar in someone else's hands sound like it was made at God's own luthier's bench. As always, one man's meat is another man's poison.
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Those Zager EZ play guitars
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For me - it's most Gibson USA made Dreadnoughts made between about 1980 and 2011 or 2012...
They were fairly expensive and generally very heavily built. The word was the corporate business owners were quite concerned about warranty return and brand image over musicality. Now... You may have a different opinion of these if you play with quite heavy strings with a very heavy hand - such as playing out live unamplified in noisy bars, church, or bluegrass jams. 10 or 15 years of this sort of play seems to loosen them up enough that they sound pretty decent with normal medium strings. The second "underwhelming" performer to me was the Ovations with the thick plastic dipped soundboards. Generally made between about 1987 and when the plant closed the 1st time. The exception is the 1994 Custom Collectors Edition - which was well made with a nice thin finish and it really sounded nice and loud. The early ones were great. Loud and responsive. Ironically - the ones with really thick finishes generally sound a lot better when the finishes craze really bad... But the factory figured that out and made them a lot more flexible so they wouldn't crack. 3rd... 1970's Martin dreads for all the reasons everybody already knows. |
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Haven't we all heard guitars from both ends of the spectrum? Anyone who has played guitars for any length of time have found that are some are far too expensive for the sound they offer, while finding others that have bang for the buck factor, sometimes in spades?
Play what you like and buy what you like- cost shouldn't be a factor. Period.
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You must have lots of discretionary cash. Many of us buy the best we can afford. Period.
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I think they're actually the minor league team for the Illuminati in Italy... |
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Boring!
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I understand. Far out man! Oh and the answer is any guitar I presently don't own.
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Show me a guitar that plays below its cost and I'll show you a guitarist that needs to practice.
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