One of the reasons Brazilian rosewood is revered is that the guitars that people hear are usually older and built by great builders.
A friend of mine had a custom BR guitar built relatively recently. Yes, it sounded very good. But I would not say I was blown away.
OTOH, Steven Stills' Golden Era BR Martins are beyond any kind of description, Great!
Build, played in, age, player. I believe it is a combination of these.
The mystique is somewhat the fact that most of us will never have a BR guitar.
BR better? Like most things acoustic guitar, beauty is in the eye or maybe, ears, of the beholder.
Feel free to disagree. It's just my opinion. No better, no worse than any others.
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