Every been tempted to just settle for one high-end guitar?

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People are wrong for paying thousands more for a Gibson when Epiphone makes something similar for less. They're supposed to steal the high end guitar. I has the biggest bang-for-your-buck. All of a sudden every guitar is affordable.
 
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An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind. Just because they rape our wallet doesn't mean it's okay for us to rape their shareholders.

Wow that sounds like something a 1 percenter would say.
 
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blueman335 said:
That's the heart of this thread: How much is the difference worth to you?
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Precisely. And ultimately we each get to decide that for ourselves. The way I see it, anybody who buys a guitar that suits their needs and makes them happy to play it has already "won"; only on an Internet forum would we twist that around and try to make it a bad thing.
 
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Myaccount876 said:
People are wrong for paying thousands more for a Gibson when Epiphone makes something similar for less. They're supposed to steal the high end guitar. I has the biggest bang-for-your-buck. All of a sudden every guitar is affordable.
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Does your family run a contract prison or something?
 
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Isn't it kind of ironic this discussion is taking place on the website of a company that builds $100+ pickups, when you can buy pickups from the orient that "do the same thing" (i.e., transfer vibrations to an amplifier) for 5 bucks?
 
Re: Every been tempted to just settle for one high-end guitar?

Nobody ever said $500 and $2000 guitars were identical. Straw man assertion.
 
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blueman335 said:
I question the advice that everyone should 'save up for that one high-end guitar'. What if it's not much different than the one they had that was significantly less expensive, at least as far as they can tell, and the old one did everything they needed? There's no guarantee that making that big expenditure is going to be worthwhile for someone
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Then the person made a bad choice. My advice simply provided a way to be able to make the choice. If a particular instrument isn't better for you than what you have, then why the heck would you buy it? That logic applies whether the instrument is $400 or $4,000.


blueman335 said:
considering what else they have to give up to get it (including arguments with the family over it). That money may have been much better spent on something for the whole family.
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If the $10/week figure I threw out above is a significant household sacrifice, you're right. Of course, if someone is that strapped, are they going to have any rig at all? I'd question how relevant that scenario is to the question posed in the original post.
 
Re: Every been tempted to just settle for one high-end guitar?

blueman335 said:
I question the advice that everyone should 'save up for that one high-end guitar'. What if it's not much different than the one they had that was significantly less expensive, at least as far as they can tell, and the old one did everything they needed?
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I guess they could always play the guitar first, but maybe that's not allowed in Straw Land.
 
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I question the advice that everyone should 'save up for that one high-end guitar'.
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How about the simple fact that a premium guitar is a want and not a need?
 
Re: Every been tempted to just settle for one high-end guitar?

blueman335 said:
That's the heart of this thread: How much is the difference worth to you?
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What bothers me is that those who do opt to pay the extra $1500 are so vague about what they get for that extra expense. It makes a particular open chord more resonant or something, the fret work might or might not be better, it's prettier in some respect, non specific mention about quality. You sound like youre justifying spending money on palm readings or something else whose benefits are somewhere between vague and non existent.
I'll tell you this, a big part of the cost is that is made in America, and that considered by itself is a stupid thing to pay for. Thank god that's not the one and only difference.
 
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DreX said:
How about the simple fact that a premium guitar is a want and not a need?
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That could be said about any guitar. Would you trade your $500 guitars for a First Act starter pack? Why are you trying to devalue our decision because we spent more money than you on our guitars? There are a lot of high-end guitar owners on this board. If you don't think high-end guitars are not worth the value don't buy them. However, don't try to make our purchases to look frivolous, uninformed or wasteful. High-end guitar owners are not a bunch of rich guys that throw money at an instrument because they don't know better. Most of the guys on this board bust their humps working to afford these guitars. It might surprise you to know that SDUGF is full of guitar players that know quite a bit about guitars - some probably more than you. If you think we are stupid enough to spend an extra $1500 just to have the word Gibson, Parker or PRS on our headstocks, you have not been truly reading these forums.
 
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Re: Every been tempted to just settle for one high-end guitar?

DreX said:
What bothers me is that those who do opt to pay the extra $1500 are so vague about what they get for that extra expense. It makes a particular open chord more resonant or something, the fret work might or might not be better, it's prettier in some respect, non specific mention about quality. You sound like youre justifying spending money on palm readings or something else whose benefits are somewhere between vague and non existent.
I'll tell you this, a big part of the cost is that is made in America, and that considered by itself is a stupid thing to pay for. Thank god that's not the one and only difference.
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I've been really specific about some of the things I've found in certain guitars that have lead me to feel they are worth the extra money to me. You're trying to reduce all of them to something that seems silly and easily dismissed. You've made it really clear that you're more interested in judging than in understanding. What is it you're hoping to gain here?
 
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You didn't read what I had replied to very carefully. If you want to learn to play guitar, you "need" a guitar, if you have gigs lined up, you need a guitar, but to ever "recommend" that it be premium is stupid.
 
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you mf'z with identcial//// AV's are burnin up my last two fighting brain cells. :dunce:
 
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Why do you need a $500 guitar? Why isn't a $200 model good enough?
 
Re: Every been tempted to just settle for one high-end guitar?

DreX said:
You didn't read what I had replied to very carefully. If you want to learn to play guitar, you "need" a guitar, if you have gigs lined up, you need a guitar, but to ever "recommend" that it be premium is stupid.
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I didn't think this thread could get any more moronic.

I was wrong.
 
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