Re: price vs. sound - was - What is the best MP3 encoder?

Florian Paul Schmidt <mista.tapas@xxxxxxx> · Tue, 02 Apr 2013 16:35:57 +0200



    On 04/02/2013 04:15 PM, Daniel Worth
      wrote:

    
              I actually like the sound of the guitars I have made in
              Quebec that are

              sub $500 over some more expensive acoustics.
            

            I've played and owned a large variety of high end, and
              low end, gear, and beyond a certain price point it isn't
              about sound anymore. I have a Gibson Les Paul Custom worth
              about $2700 and I never take it out of the case because
              I'm afraid It'll get scratched, that guitar is a piece of
              art, my other electric was a $600 strat copy I got 15
              years ago and it still sounds and plays amazing. I also
              owned a $1500 Taylor 814ce and I prefer my $300 Epiphone.
              My brother in-law plays custom built guitars int the $4000
              range and I can till out play him on a pawn shop guitar
              any day of the week. Given the choice between a functional
              great sounding instrument that I can drag to a gig or up
              around a campfire or the worlds most lusted after
              instrument I'd go with the budget gear and enjoy the hell
              out of it, I bet no one ever got drunk around a camp fire
              deep in the Rocky Mountains with a Stradivarius and had
              the best time of their life.

            
    Generally I agree. I was honestly surprised to find the sweet spot
    for classical guitars to be so high in price. I expected machining
    to have gotten so much better in the last decades that factory built
    low-medium end classical guitars would hold up sound wise to hand
    built classicals. But to my dismay I found it not to be true. For
    campfire trips I still take my 250 euro yamaha classical though..

    
    Flo

    
    -- 
Florian Paul Schmidt
http://fps.io
  

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