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what brand acoustic guitar is better?

I have a list of brands and need to know which brand is better. I pretty much already know which models I like. The brands are:
Seagull
Fender
Ovation
Dean
Oscar Schmidt
Alvarez
Ibanez
Guild

This is sort of a trick question, since it really is a matter of price. All these companies are really great companies and make excellent guitars if you want to spend more.

What you really want is the most solid wood you can buy. And I think Mitchell has the cheapest all solid wood guitar, and I think it sounds great. Although I must say Breedlove, Martin and Taylors solid tops really sound nice, which I don’t quite understand. They are more expensive, however, than their solid top counterparts. I think the cheapest solid top is Epiphone for $99, but that just doesn’t sound as good as the stolid tops above.

Let me just say a few words here.

Seagull – I personally don’t like the cedar tops. They are too soft for me.
Ovation – this is really a specialty guitar for those who like playing live or through an amp and want to avoid the boomiesness of traditional guitars. To me they sacrifice warmth in strumming with really high quality fingerpicking or lead playing bennefits.

Guild – well, those are just excellent, like the Martin, the Taylors, the Breedloves. I have never really bothered to try them because they are so expensive.

Dean – I would avoid the heavy laminate Deans. They are great to look at, but the laminate doesn’t do anything for the sound. However, the non-laminate Deans, the new Fenders, Alvarez and Ibanez – they are all good solid top guitars. Don’t get one that is not a solid top. Make sure the strings don’t buzz. I can’t really tell by the sound of them any difference. The strings might be nicer on one, the setup is better on another, the Dean bridge is supposedly more efficient in the transmission of sound, but I really can’t hear it.

I’m surprised the Yamaha and Mitchell aren’t on your list, as well as the Takamine.

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