Acoustic Guitars of NAMM 2024 Ranked | Our Top Picks at $1500, $3000, and $5000!

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@AlexA99423 8 ай бұрын

Thanks folks. Lots of hard work to put this together for us. 👍😮👍

@derekfromtauranga6012 8 ай бұрын

Great to see Alvarez who have put a lot into r+d and have brought out new models scoring well.

@AcousticShoppe 8 ай бұрын

Agreed!

@johnhicks7057 8 ай бұрын

Thx John. Very informative. Thank you for taking the time to put this together.

@Theclassiccarnut 8 ай бұрын

Love your channel! Keep up the great work!

@johnabate2593 8 ай бұрын

Finally, someone recognizes the quality of Bedell. Love my Angelica Bellissima

@carole8312 8 ай бұрын

Thank you! Appreciate all the hard work.❤

@bmac5085 8 ай бұрын

I appreciate that was a big challenge that you done there. Interesting as well

@Akapickles 8 ай бұрын

Alvarez has some great instruments at pretty much any price point. Glad to see them getting some of the respect they deserve.

@dxcman1 8 ай бұрын

Love those Yamahas..

@Paulio91184 8 ай бұрын

No better bang for the buck

@texhaines9957 4 ай бұрын

Glad you had Iris Guitars in there. You can also customize them under $3k. For example mine is a 12-fret, torrified Adirondack top. I went with an OG (like a Gibson LG2) and AB (like a Gibson SJ-185). As for over $5k, I was impressed with the Collings, but will need to try the Bedell and Yiari necks. HeH

@moshealex 2 ай бұрын

My two Alvarez guitars on your list. Thank you for sharing your review. I really trust you, guys.

@edz517 Ай бұрын

Just curious how you judged playability and were there any 5 out of 5s in this area?

@slpc30 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for this awesome video !!

@AcousticShoppe 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@jamesadams1064 8 ай бұрын

Great comparisons. Happy to see Eastman at the top of one category. What is the Eastman on your lap? I have an E 10 D that is great and aging wonderfully. Love your channel.

@AcousticShoppe 8 ай бұрын

That's our new TAS exclusive. It's a Largesoundhole Tony rice style dread with Madagascar Rosewood, we're excited to see them in!

@JoeP-f5f 8 ай бұрын

The problem with comparing the sound of guitars is that WHAT SOUNDS GOOD TO YOU MAY NOT TO ME.

@3cardmonty602 8 ай бұрын

Thanks John. Great ranking video.

@AF4Chris 8 ай бұрын

What model Eastman is that? Custom pick guard? I haven’t seen that in any of your videos (I don’t think). Zoomed in on the tag and looks like something specially built for NAMM?

@AcousticShoppe 8 ай бұрын

I believe are you referring to the Eastman John is holding throughout reading the scores? If so that is our Eastman TAS Exclusive model. It's a large soundhole dread with madagascar back and sides. And they are going to have custom pick gaurds. We first played it and talked about it on this livestream: kzbin.infoa0bA70Of2ec We only have the prototype at the moment, but we will soon be getting in more models and we'll have even more content coming soon!

@diogenio 8 ай бұрын

I’ll bet 90% of guitar players are using instruments costing under $750. This is the range where there are MAJOR differences in playability and sound quality. Some cheap guitars really suck, others can rival instruments in the $1500 range. Next time, please add the “cheap-o” category for those of us looking to separate the cheap wheat from the chaff. D’Angelico a great cheapie, for example…?

@ralfybaby 8 ай бұрын

Try them all. Then buy the yamaha or the Alvarez. They beat everything at their price point Glad to help😅

@carole8312 7 ай бұрын

@@ralfybaby Eastman are great too.

@florianr461 5 ай бұрын

@@ralfybabyyour right!!! people have to accept the fact Yamaha is top tier

@dg111fu 3 ай бұрын

Yamaha beats things beyond their price point 😂

@dg111fu 3 ай бұрын

I've also heard good thinga about eastman and Alvarez/Yairi

@Timberdam 6 ай бұрын

So I'm a newbie ! But no Taylor's ???

@AcousticShoppe 6 ай бұрын

Taylor had a private room this year and wouldn't let us in to demos their guitars... maybe next year.

@moshealex 2 ай бұрын

@@AcousticShoppe , I'm not surprised. But you have two Alvarez, that I have.

@redson425 8 ай бұрын

Excellent video, except you gave the Bedell a 5/5 for Asthetics?? Hmm did they slip you a little something on the side? It looks bloody awful.

@AcousticShoppe 8 ай бұрын

Different strokes for different folks 🤷‍♂️

@tastas8554 Ай бұрын

The noisiest thing at that conference was your shirt 😂😂😂

@mandrew20111 8 ай бұрын

Did you play anything by Zaar? Been real interested In them lately

@russellsmith6881 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for your scores and really interested and informative content.

@Whatsisface4 8 ай бұрын

Why, on a video about acoustic guitars, do you have a backing track of electric guitars?

@AcousticShoppe 8 ай бұрын

Vibes

@Whatsisface4 8 ай бұрын

@@AcousticShoppe It's like you're saying the acoustic guitar doesn't count.

@AcousticShoppe 8 ай бұрын

@@Whatsisface4 Honestly the search of finding royalty free music can be daunting, and most acoustic guitar tracks have sad vibes, this one just kinda fit! 🤷‍♂

@carole8312 8 ай бұрын

P.S. Love the thumbnail😂

@AcousticShoppe 8 ай бұрын

Thanks Carole!

@tclaffey 8 ай бұрын

Does either the Eastman e1d deluxe or e1ss deluxe come in lefty?

@AcousticShoppe 8 ай бұрын

At the moment, we cannot order these models left handed, but I suspect the E1D may be available lefty in the future considering they do build the E1D Lefty and it's basically the same model just with upgrades.

@tclaffey 8 ай бұрын

@@AcousticShoppe thanks, big fan of the channel, if these ever become available left handed please let us know, I'm pretty interested

@joe19912 4 ай бұрын

Unfortunately, a lot of the smaller guys still aren't giving us lefties a lot of choices. They also need to be available through large sellers like Sweetwater that have easy, no interest payment options.

@AcousticShoppe 4 ай бұрын

We definitely agree that the leftie options are lacking but we always have some on order from our companies and we try to work with them the best we can to get more options available. We also have 12 month, no-interest financing options, it's not just the big guys! 🙂

@joe19912 4 ай бұрын

@AcousticShoppe Appreciate it, let them know their only hurting themselves. If I may use your inventory as n example: Lefties in the USA are 13% of the population. 3 out your 181 guitars are lefty. That's only 1.6%. To reflect your potential customer base, you should have 23 lefty guitars. (13%of 181 = 23.5)

@vincentrockel1149 2 ай бұрын

Maybe I'm missing something here, but y'all rate most all the 1500$ guitars higher in tone than the ones in the 3000 range. Are you saying that the 1500 sounded better.than the 3000 or are you using different metrics?

@AcousticShoppe 2 ай бұрын

No, we are compering by each price point. So for the $1,500 guitars, we’re thinking of the tone for guitars in that price range. Then for the $3,000 ones, we’re comparing the tone with guitars in that price range. We were not comparing $1,500 vs $3,000 guitars when we scored these

@ElMcMeen1a 8 ай бұрын

Man, a lot of work to put this together! But you must not have played a Greenfield guitar. :)

@Chriscam2you 8 ай бұрын

I saw you playing a Cole Clark in the video, how did it rate?

@georgefinn2054 8 ай бұрын

Did there happen to be a Guild there and if so what was your take on it?

@AcousticShoppe 8 ай бұрын

John played one this year & we really like guild guitars. Unfortunately, they have been underrepresented the past few years an The NAMM Show.

@RachelSemeson 5 ай бұрын

* Top five plywoods* … some even include Lisa Frank designs 🎉

@sasapavsic5686 8 ай бұрын

Gr8 video but 99% dreads. Is there a good om there somewhere?

@AcousticShoppe 8 ай бұрын

This year there were quite a few options of these models in an OM version as well.

@ken.martin 8 ай бұрын

when are you going to talk about the bougeois touchstone signature?

@AcousticShoppe 8 ай бұрын

As soon as possible! We’ll give them full reviews as soon as they arrive!

@danielfaulkenbury7700 8 ай бұрын

Didn't Dowina have a booth this year?

@AcousticShoppe 8 ай бұрын

We may have missed them!

@bmac5085 8 ай бұрын

A pity because they make amazing guitars. @@AcousticShoppe

@AcousticShoppe 8 ай бұрын

@@bmac5085 Next year we'll try to hit even more. Realistically this was quite the challenge in between meetings and Livestreams.

@777bigbird 8 ай бұрын

And what about Kepma ?

@Timberdam 6 ай бұрын

Do you like Taylor's ? maybe do a comparison of your top 5 Guitars !! Personally I'm not spending over $ 2000.00 I did enjoy your previous videos ! Soooo many choices, How does one decide ? Your mostly buying on line cuz my local Guitar stores have limited selection .. Any way thanks for answering my question ! I know Lindsey Buckingham plays a Taylor as well as Taylor Swift

@AcousticShoppe 6 ай бұрын

Taylors have never really been our style for the music we like to play, but they can be great guitars. The best way to decide what guitar to by is honestly by trying out as many as you can and seeing what you like!

@shlepprock 5 ай бұрын

Did they ever get to the topic, I gave up after 2 and 1/2 minutes. I wish somebody would make a video on this subject though, sounds interesting

@andrewfulda3899 Ай бұрын

As always, love your NAMM reviews but please don’t string us along (see what I did there) for over four minutes before you get into the reviews.

@Jadar... 8 ай бұрын

I wonder how you couldn't juge these guitars within all this noise : I ended up hearing a piano more than the guitar you played once at least, and could only get a genuine idea of how a guitar sounded in one situation - when you played the (under 1500 dollars) Breedlove...

@777bigbird 8 ай бұрын

Takemine ! All price points .

@bryancapriglione 8 ай бұрын

interesting that jang, greenfield, galloup, kevin ryan seem to not be on this list….

@RandyBelinda 8 ай бұрын

This was a fun segment. I just hope players don’t take the results too seriously. I’ve been to NAMM many times. It is impossible to demo any acoustic guitar there for serious listening. The noise level there is akin to a busy airport runway. Yes you can try to subjectively judge quality of build and playability but to judge tone, volume or nuance is ridiculous. Hundreds of small shop offerings and Indi luthiers at NAMM. To ignore these best of the best makes any subjective over $5k results completely bogus. Still, a fun exercise and quite an accomplishment, even if the end result is questionable.

@joe19912 4 ай бұрын

Agree. Also these show guitars are going to be their best looking and sounding with perfect setups. Now if they'd let you buy directly from the show, I'm in.

@drewheyman7173 3 ай бұрын

Breedlove. Yeah baby

@SkidGear423 8 ай бұрын

The Eastman logo missing on that headstock makes me big sad

@AF4Chris 8 ай бұрын

I kind of disagree...reminds me of the SCGC headstock with no logo...VERY unique

@BlindTom61 Ай бұрын

No Authentics?

@callmeic 8 ай бұрын

I thought the bedell was 8990?

@AcousticShoppe 8 ай бұрын

It is, this was an estimation at the time of filming I believe, whoops!

@callmeic 8 ай бұрын

@@AcousticShoppe ahhh drat

@throwarockatme9290 8 ай бұрын

I was so hoping you’d do a category of “guitars priced at $3,999” haha. So since you didn’t…what was your impression of that new Martin GPCE Inception? Inquiring minds want to know. And why did Taylor deny entry??

@AcousticShoppe 8 ай бұрын

John says the inception is interesting but not really his cup of tea. Of course, John is coming from a Bluegrass background, so it's kinda hard to form a strong opinion on something he wouldn't play naturally with the style he prefers. Also Taylor was only allowing dealers in.