Taylor Review: 614ce

History:

Purchase: I bought this guitar at the Fret House in Covina Ca. for around $2500.

What I Like About This Taylor 614ce: The clarity that comes from this guitar is amazing. The highs ring clear without being thin or tinny. The Fishman pickup is awesome. I like to use the blender at about the 80% pickup range, which utilizes the condenser mic in the tonehole to add a nice acoustic/unplugged sound.

What I Do NOT Like About The Taylor 614ce: The only thing that I've run into, and I realize that there are other tradeoff's, is that when I am playing unplugged, it is not a huge sound. Part of this is the tonewood that they use, and the other is the fact that the body style is grand auditorium. Although I have played the jumbo version, 615, and it is still not as big a sound as you would get from an 800 series.

Taylor 614ce Quality Rating: Construction and durability is great. I have had this guitar for about 5 years and it is still in great shape, needing only minor adjustments, and I play this thing everyday.

Review Summary: This is an amazing guitar. It is not an all in one kind of guitar, but what it does, it does impecibly. I've played lots of Martins and Larivee's and I would still buy this guitar every day of the week. To get a better guitar you are going to need to move into the area of hand crafted custom guitars (Olson, Goodall, etc).

Rating of this Taylor product: 4

This Taylor 614ce Acoustic Guitars Review Submitted By: Jeff

Review Date: 2004-08-25