I love this guitar, it is my go to guitar and it plays as well as any of my electrics (from Fender and Gibson). If I am working on a song for a concert, I'll use this to get the feel for the song and the chord sequence before I turn to the electric. I've used this both fully acoustic and through a PA and both sound excellent. I have had to replace the pre-amp so I have fitted the newer lp valve pre-amp, the parametric was good but I prefer the different sounds of the lp valve. I brought the Takamine because it was on sale for a very good price (see the price guide above) due to some shop damage to the head that has been professionally repaired, you need to have it pointed out to see it. I also looked at the Takemine because I saw Nils Lofgren on his Acoustic tour in the late 90's and thought the sound was excellent. I recently asked him why he uses Takemine and he says he loves the sound, I agree completely.

A professional musician friend of mine plays one of these for a living because he prefers the sound of the Parametric pre-amp. He says he would rather have this guitar instead of some $5000 Taylor guitars he's played. Look who else in the business has one of these on stage when they could have any other they wanted: Garth Brooks, Toby Keith, and man others...