I'm playing this instrument for less than 1 month, having delivered it to Tbilisi, Georgia from Germany via UPS. I can compare with the Simon&Patrick (Godin) Showcase mapple dreadnought, the 000-shaped spruce-maple Maton, Seagull songwriter in a GrandA shape and the full-mahogany Sigma 000.
Just after I got it from the box I was really excited with the way the guitar had been assembled, the quality of the wood, the moderate design, and the SOUND.
Its advantages:
1. Sound. It's A pure 'gold middle'. Well-balanced. Richer than a spruce top. In comparison with any maple-back guitar, it has smoother bass, rich middle, and moderate bottom.
As to me, acoustically it sounds way better than any Maton.
2. The pickup system - top-level choice out of the box. Crystal sound, precise tuner, solid mounted, upper access to battery block. It's a miracle.
3. The body has a satin finish, not a glossy one. It doesn't require any measures for being firmly held on the player's knee.
4. Fast fretboard of middle thickness.
5. It keeps in-tune. Perfectly calibrated tuning out of the box.
6. It has no unnecessary decorations.
Several bitter peels are:
1. The upper nut wasn't glued firmly enough, so it disassembled the first time I had been trying to change strings.
2. It requires an immediate visit to your luthier to be fine-tuned.
As it had been previously mentioned here, the lower bridge bone was quite high. I instantly changed the stock .12 set to .11, but still had to remove about 1.5 mm.
The truss rod hadn't been tuned as well, having resulted in a perfectly concave-free fretboard.
3. Tiny frets. I really have no idea why we are always getting so low and narrow frets on a well over $1000 guitar. With the stock frets, you need stricter control of your fingers to make a vibrato. Playing fingerstyle requires setting thicker strings extremely low to slap.
I'd like at least 1.5 mm high instead, or a Gibson-like wide variant.
