Figure out what you DO like, and buy that. No, you probably won’t like Koa tops. But that’s not real helpful until you figure out what kind of top you DO like. Play a bunch or buy used (and resell when you decide against), and then decide. My ears like most tone wood tops. I have spruce dreadnoughts and a hog top 000. I’ve only played a handful of koa tops (one being the very expensive all koa Martin authentic), and none of them ever did it for me. (And I do love a good hog top.). But those koas DO reportedly take a long time to break in.
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