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Originally Posted by HodgdonExtreme
The Road Series Martins do a great job of capturing the famous Martin tone for not a lot of money. The trade off, of course, is embellishments and Mexican manufacture.
Personally, I find the tone of the DRS1 to be too earthy and dry - but I've only ever played them in the store with whatever strings Martin installs, which seem to be the ones that almost feel sticky.
I recently played a used DRS2 that sounded better than any other Martin I've ever had the pleasure to try out! I even went back to demo it again. If it weren't for the 1 11/16" nut, it would have come home with me.
Congrats on the new guitar!! Play it in good health!
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Not sure where you played the DRS2, but they come with 1 3/4 nut for over a year now. You have to look at serial numbers to know when they changed over.