Late to the thread, but yes, as others have said, a lot of times the plugged in sound of an archtop versus the unplugged are vastly different things.
Which is not to say there aren't "sweet" sounding acoustic archtops...but even that tone is very different from a plugged in guitar.
I'm another person who found the mellow tone I wanted for unplugged jazz playing in a flat top-- namely an all mahogany flat top. Actually, in the little over a year that I've been playing this guitar, I've often wondered why more jazz players don't go this route for unplugged sounds...
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