Recommend me an acoustic under $1000!

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TelePaul said:
Right on man!
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I really like Larrivee's. I have never owned one but have played and recorded quite a bit with a D5 series.

Aren't those D15 and 3 series Larrivee's real close to a $1000 bucks?
 
therage! said:
I really like Larrivee's. I have never owned one but have played and recorded quite a bit with a D5 series.

Aren't those D15 and 3 series Larrivee's real close to a $1000 bucks?
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Probably for you on the high street, the Martin site lists an RRP of 1150.
 
Everyone has different taste but if you have a hard time getting a good sound from a D-15 or other good-sounding, $1,000 (cheap :rolleyes:) guitar then maybe guitar lessons should be a higher priority. :D
 
I see the MAP for the D-15s in American online retailers at $949.00. Call them, and many will go lower. They tend to do that less here in Europe. I paid €888.00 for my D-15 here in Germany, and Thomann doesn't really negotiate. I've heard that the Larri L-03 and D-03(R)s can be had for between 7-800 greenbacks. They are ridiculously overpriced here in Germany, though, so methinks that a distributor is taking a big chunk out of the price. I would imagine that this is only being done because the shop owners feel they can sell the Larris at that price without blushing. I emailed one place a while back and asked why their Larri prices were so high, and my email wasn't returned. Hopefully, I'll get over the pond next year, and pick up a Larri for a reasonable price (and given that the shellacking that the Euro is giving the dollar, I'd get one for about €600.00).
 
MK-Ultra said:
I see the MAP for the D-15s in American online retailers at $949.00. Call them, and many will go lower. They tend to do that less here in Europe. I paid €888.00 for my D-15 here in Germany, and Thomann doesn't really negotiate. I've heard that the Larri L-03 and D-03(R)s can be had for between 7-800 greenbacks. They are ridiculously overpriced here in Germany, though, so methinks that a distributor is taking a big chunk out of the price. I would imagine that this is only being done because the shop owners feel they can sell the Larris at that price without blushing. I emailed one place a while back and asked why their Larri prices were so high, and my email wasn't returned. Hopefully, I'll get over the pond next year, and pick up a Larri for a reasonable price (and given that the shellacking that the Euro is giving the dollar, I'd get one for about €600.00).
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Yeah the Americans don't know how good they have it in terms of instrument costs. I keep hearing about guitar centre's crazy sales. So jealous. For the price of a Highway One Strat here you can buy an American Deluxe in the US.
 
I will admit that its been a couple of years since I checked into pricing, so I made a quick call to Buffalo Brothers (where I've bought 7 guits over 10 years). They sell their 03 Series Larrivees for $799 with case, the 300 Series Taylors for $899, the 15 Series Martins for $850, and the GAD solid wood Guilds for $699. I have played all but the Guild (used to own a D-03), and the biggest difference between these and the next higher series is the finish and appointments. I also used to own a Larrivee D-05. Soundwise, the D-03 was just as nice but not as pretty to look at. So there are some sub $900 guits out there that I know are very, very good guits worthy of any player.

I kinda get therage!'s point. I just disagree with the heavy-handed delivery. Certainly most $700 guits will not compete with those costing twice as much--and they shouldn't--but some do. And I've played too many $1,500 - $2,500 guits that weren't worth half their price to accept any hard-edged statements regarding the quality of guits.
 
A friend of mine used to have a small guitar shop in town that stocked some high end acoustic guitars but specialized in good used stuff. He was the first Taylor dealer locally and also carried Martin, and Guild.

I can remember walking in there one day and he pointed out a used Aria dread he had just taken in on trade. That Aria was easily the best sounding box in the shop. Tone may be subjective but volume or power is not. The Aria had more power than a well played Martin HD-28 sitting beside it. The tone was rich and warm with a crisp high end. He put an outrageous price of $400 on it. Market value was a little over half that at the time. It was gone in a couple of days. Somebody besides me agreed with Sam.

He also had an Olympia (by Tacoma) laminated cheapie (new) that had very big volume and tone unlike the others of the same model on the rack

By contrast, a couple of the Taylors were complete duds. Go figure.

All that is to say that you CAN get a good instrument on a budget. You just have to do some leg work, Probably a lot of it.

One other note:
If you ever wrap your fingers around a guitar whose feel and tone you can't live without, Don't try to live without it. They don't come around that often.
 
A friend of mine worked here for quite a while:

http://www.vintageandrareguitars.com/web/Home

I spent quite a few Sundays, hanging out and playing lots of guitars, mainly acoustics because that’s what I mainly play. I found that the price tag on a guitar is not always representative of the way it sounds. Of course there are many guitars costing £1000s which are worth every penny. But there are also some nice sounding guitars which can be had for <£500 ($1000). And of course people like different things when it comes to how a guitar sounds, eg. I played very few Taylors that I liked the sound of, some people love them.

I really like Seagulls, especially the cedar tops, in fact I like them so much I bought one and it’s my main guitar. There was an also a new Australian brand which sounded pretty nice and they were cheap, I can’t for the life of me remember the name, :o maybe it’ll come to me.

Best thing to do is get to a well stocked shop and spend a good couple of hours playing lots of guitars. Of course there will be those out of your price range which you'll fall in love with, and there will be those which cost a bomb and which you don’t care for at all.

And all being well there will be one that feels right, sounds amazing and falls nicely within your budget.
 
Kevin Deschwazi said:
A friend of mine worked here for quite a while:

http://www.vintageandrareguitars.com/web/Home

I spent quite a few Sundays, hanging out and playing lots of guitars, mainly acoustics because that’s what I mainly play. I found that the price tag on a guitar is not always representative of the way it sounds. Of course there are many guitars costing £1000s which are worth every penny. But there are also some nice sounding guitars which can be had for <£500 ($1000). And of course people like different things when it comes to how a guitar sounds, eg. I played very few Taylors that I liked the sound of, some people love them.

I really like Seagulls, especially the cedar tops, in fact I like them so much I bought one and it’s my main guitar. There was an also a new Australian brand which sounded pretty nice and they were cheap, I can’t for the life of me remember the name, :o maybe it’ll come to me.

Best thing to do is get to a well stocked shop and spend a good couple of hours playing lots of guitars. Of course there will be those out of your price range which you'll fall in love with, and there will be those which cost a bomb and which you don’t care for at all.

And all being well there will be one that feels right, sounds amazing and falls nicely within your budget.
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I was in their London shop down on Denmark St. in September. Lots of nice guitars. I didn't try any because I had already bought 4 this year by that time, and my wife would've killed me if I'd tried to bring home another one.
 
MK-Ultra said:
I was in their London shop down on Denmark St. in September. Lots of nice guitars. I didn't try any because I had already bought 4 this year by that time, and my wife would've killed me if I'd tried to bring home another one.
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Did any of your guitars ever try and persuade you not to marry your wife?:D

I've not been to Denamark street for years so haven't been to the V&R there, my friend worked in the Bath shop.
 
If you don't mine Chinese guitars you can get a Guild GAD series and have a fist full of dollars left over. I have one of their 12 strings and it sounds great.
 
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