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Originally Posted by Mystery123
I'm pretty sure Taylor tested this design and proved it before marketing.
It's not a drawing from a 1st grader.
It's from one of their guitar designers with years of experience.
Taylor won't invest time and $$$$ on a design that's inferior to existing one.
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Ah, but with this you're buying into the HIGHLY SUBJECTIVE definition Taylor is making about what defines superior from inferior. Their definition is clearly balanced sustain and volume up the fret-board. I'm not a guitar builder, but I understand sound engineering enough to know that one of the nuanced things about a guitar's tone that make it's timbre unique is how the decay shifts a bit as you go up the neck. This is not something I want fixed or feel needs correcting. It comes back to a certain beauty in the imperfection and the sterile, uninteresting quality sometimes perfection can bring.
If Taylor's quest was to build a more piano-like sounding guitar then assuming everything they are claiming about V-Bracing is true, that just means this design change gets Taylor closer to their vision of a superior guitar. This just makes their guitars even more alien from traditional guitar tonal character. If a player is looking to get the great acoustic tone their guitar heros had the traditional tone is going to be what they're chasing and that's going to be a very different definition of what makes a superior guitar than Taylor's definition.