This was an Anniversary present from my beautiful wife. I read several revues on-line concerning this particular model, and they varied from raving about it, to hating it. Personally, I love it. I think that when you talk about inexpensive instruments, you unfortunately are faced with snobbery. Some people feel they cannot be “lowered” to playing a guitar that isn’t made by Gibson, or Fender, or in the case of acoustics, Martin. I think they are fooling themselves. You don't have to pay $3,000 for a good musical instrument. As long as you have a good solid, well made guitar I think, as my brother Bill put it so aptly, “It’s a lot more about who’s fingers are on the fretboard than who’s names on the headstock”!