I am not familiar with those specific models, so I can't comment on them specifically. I can give you the advice I give to anyone who comes to our shop asking about buying guitars. Personally, I find all of the PRS guitars uninspiring. They just don't do it for me. The workmanship is great, so don't think I am knocking their quality, I just don't like them. That does not mean you won't.
The thing you want to do is to play as many guitars as you can. Go to stores, and play. Find a good store in your area, NOT a Guitar Center, someplace smaller with a sales staff which is professional. Ask them questions, see if they have any ideas you may not have had. Try a lot of guitars. Spend a couple of weeks playing. Do not discount ANY guitar until you have played it. Try some used (I guess I am supposed to say pre-owned) guitars. New ones, old ones, beat up ones, pristine ones. Don't think that a guitar you have never heard of is crap, because it may be your perfect guitar. When you find The One, most stores will let you bring it home to try out (you have to pay for it, but you can get the money back). Once you have it, take it to a good repair shop, preferably not the store where you bought the guitar, and have them look at the instrument. It should be free for them to just look at it. They will tell you what issues it is having, whether they can be fixed at a reasonable cost, and whether a setup is a good idea (which it almost always will be).
A couple other things to keep in mind. First of all, warranties. None of the major American electric guitar companies (Fender, Gibson, and PRS) have particularly great warranties. Of the three, Gibson is probably the best, but even they are not great. With PRS, they basically have no warranty service. They have one guy at the factory who does warranty work part time, and they do not sell or provide replacement parts, nor do they have any warranty service centers. Basically, if something goes wrong, IF they cover it, they replace the instrument. But they are far less likely to cover anything, and you are then out the guitar you spent so much time looking for. Identical guitars are not always identical, after all. Fender and Gibson both have quite a few warranty centers; however, they are both stingy with the people doing their warranty work. Fender pays us about half of our regular rate, and Gibson is only moderately better. We still (always) do our best work, but we are probably not always quick about it. They also both have relatively low limits on how much they will pay us. This means that, if you have a bigger warranty issue, you will be waiting for it to go to the factory and back. This WILL take six months, and may well take a year. Gibson is a little better, but not much.
If you want to read their full warranties, check their web sites. I am not going to go into it here. Just remember, every company has instruments that just are not right. It is not a slight on their work, it is just a fact of mass production. Even small shops have instruments that just are not as perfect as they should be. If you get one, judge them by the way they handle the issue.
Lastly, I would advise you to make sure you take whatever instrument you buy, new or used, to a good repair shop for a setup. We can make almost any instrument play better than it does, and every new factory instrument needs a setup. Again, this is not (entirely) a slight on their work. Aside from the fact that no factory anywhere adjusts their nuts right, they have a very good reason not to get them perfect. They just will not stay that way. It is very important to them that their instruments do not buzz when they get into the store, even after the climate changes have wrecked havoc on the setup from the factory. If an instrument buzzes, customers will put it down, and will NOT pick it back up again. The only area where I really feel they are being cheap is the crap adjustments of their nuts. Their is ONE right way to set a nut, and it is not something which is subject to major change due to the climate. There is no good reason to not do it right. None. It is, however, also a rather skilled and precision job which can not be completely automated. That means it is expensive to get it done right, and factories just are not willing to pay.
Hopefully, this will help you in your search for The One. Good luck, and remember that spending your Saturday afternoons playing guitars is fun.
Enjoy your guitar, when you get it.
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