Is a 2019 Bourgeois AT Vintage Sunburst a good guitar?

[erichardy]

Anyone played or owned one of these, are they good guitars?
Compare to a Collings D2H?

Thanks!!

[hifivic]

Originally Posted by erichardy

Anyone played or owned one of these, are they good guitars?
Compare to a Collings D2H?

Thanks!!

I've owned both brands..... both about the same build quality = top notch, won't go wrong with either but as to which is better only YOU can answer that question. Play both otherwise you're only cheating yourself.

[lar]

Looking at their (painfully slow) website, they have 6 different models with the AT designation.

If you're looking at the OM version, Carl does a nice demo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwO8Hx4-rLU

[brencat]

Originally Posted by erichardy

Anyone played or owned one of these, are they good guitars?
Compare to a Collings D2H?

Thanks!!

Hi Eric. I briefly owned a 2020 Bourgeois Aged Tone D-Vintage (Adi/EIR, Satin finish) and now own a 2020 Collings D2HTS (Sitka/EIR Traditional, Satin finish)

The Bourgeois was a nice guitar with a smoother and mellower tone than the Collings, and a narrower cone of sound. The Collings has a wider dynamic range and more brilliance and bloom in the upper mids and highs. The Bourgeois had more reverb in the lower mids, and much more subdued upper mids and highs. Volume on both is about the same. Both also had similar medium sized soft-v necks with 1 3/4 nut and 2 5/16 string spacing. The Collings T is much more lightly built and plays great with Light strings, whereas the Bourgeois needed Medium Lights at a minimum for optimal output.

For me, it's the Collings T in a landslide.

I have sound samples of both.

Below is a link to the Bourgeois I sold -- my demo plus Carl Miner's are in this Ad:
https://www.acousticguitarforum.com/...d.php?t=604204

After that, you can compare it to the Collings D2HTS below. My apologies that I don't play the same things on both guitars, but this is all I have available at the ready right now: