The best way to choose any guitar is to find one that has a sound that you like and fits your hand and body.
I have a Fender 1600SXE Jumbo. Fender manufactured the 1600 SXE between 1993 and 1995. It is a Jumbo style acoustic with a natural finished solid sitka spruce top, round soundhole, tortoise shell pickguard, rosewood back & sides and a mahogany neck. The 20-fret rosewood fingerboard has mother of pearl block inlays.The bound rosewood veneered peghead features a pearl "Fender" inlay and three-each-side gold tuners. The 1600 has 2 piezo pickups with volume/treble/bass/mix controls.
I ran across this in a music shop and only had to pick it up and play a few notes and chords to know that this was the guitar for me. As a flat picker I do a lot of playing with a strummer that plays a dreadnought. I was playing an Ovation and my single string at a time playing could not be heard clearly over his full chord strumming and baritone singing. I would have to compensate by using a small amp.
The full body sound of the jumbo was able to bring me up to a level that I no longer needed the amp and we can play together acoustically. However, the real power of the fender comes through when using an amp thanks to the Volume, Bass, and Treble controls and the fact that the Fender had 2 piezo pickups mounted in different areas of the body and a Fader control between the two. It allows me to balance the sound from the low end to the high end to get a overall balanced sound. The jumbo body also gives it a longer sustained tone after a pluck.
I have a Fender 1600SXE Jumbo. Fender manufactured the 1600 SXE between 1993 and 1995. It is a Jumbo style acoustic with a natural finished solid sitka spruce top, round soundhole, tortoise shell pickguard, rosewood back & sides and a mahogany neck. The 20-fret rosewood fingerboard has mother of pearl block inlays.The bound rosewood veneered peghead features a pearl "Fender" inlay and three-each-side gold tuners. The 1600 has 2 piezo pickups with volume/treble/bass/mix controls.
I ran across this in a music shop and only had to pick it up and play a few notes and chords to know that this was the guitar for me. As a flat picker I do a lot of playing with a strummer that plays a dreadnought. I was playing an Ovation and my single string at a time playing could not be heard clearly over his full chord strumming and baritone singing. I would have to compensate by using a small amp.
The full body sound of the jumbo was able to bring me up to a level that I no longer needed the amp and we can play together acoustically. However, the real power of the fender comes through when using an amp thanks to the Volume, Bass, and Treble controls and the fact that the Fender had 2 piezo pickups mounted in different areas of the body and a Fader control between the two. It allows me to balance the sound from the low end to the high end to get a overall balanced sound. The jumbo body also gives it a longer sustained tone after a pluck.