Taylor Acoustic Guitars / Swift & Smooth Playability

[@jordangibson695]

In my experience, Taylor guitars have "underbuilt soundboards". When they are new in the showroom, they sound fantastic. They beat out all the other high end guitars like the Martins and the Gibsons etc. But after a few years they don't age well. The balance shifts toward too much bass, and the treble notes start losing their clarity. The notes on each string start figting each other when playing chords. A temporary remedy is to string the guitar with extra light strings which will restore balance and some of these issues...but it is at the expense of volume and may be only a temporary fix. Of all their models this is least apparent in the smaller 14 series. Their drednaught and jumbo guitars suffer from it the most. My guess is this design flaw was created knowingly or not in order to have new guitars sound better than others in the showroom. It does achieve that goal, but they don't age well. in terms of sound. In a lot of other respects, Taylors are well made guitars. While I'm not a fan of their poly finishes and their modern headstock joint, their bolt-on neck design which can easily be reset and their thin neck profile are great, as is their amplification system which uses soundboard transducers.

[@earl3496]

all junk...plywood back and sides...all of them.

[@frettingitforward]

Layered wood = Plywood 😮 right