Wizard wrote
--> Where is the 'sweetspot' in terms of variants of these guitars and components? i.e. the point at which the extra buck for components is struggling to achieve much in terms of extra sound?
I think that generally with guitars it's a game of diminishing returns - for acoustics and electrics. As you go up the price curve you get less extra bang for the extra bucks.
This is more an observation than a criticism. I think it's an 80:20 game - you can get 80% for 20% of the money. To get the last 20% of tone and excellence of construction takes the other 80% of the money. You
do get more. Maybe the big increments come in lower down - the 6K guitar is twice the 3k guitar. But the 40k guitar is not twice the 20k guitar.