Can you tell the difference between a $200 and a $200,000 guitar?


Can you tell the difference between a $200, $2,000, $20,000, and $200,000 classical guitar? Direct comparison starts at 27:39.

 

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I shared a country house some years ago with professional classical guitarists, and clear difference in sound when they brought home custom made guitars from Spain, though no idea the actual cost...

An accomplished musician with a "cheap" instrument will hold your attention over a poser with an expensive one.

@noromance : My mistake! Yes, acoustic guitars all sound different. Just like violins, violas, cellos ... Since sound quality is so subjective one may prefer the cheap guitar over the expensive one! 

Sound is universal human perception affecting us on parts or locations of our emotional and physical body consistent through all cultures...

This is a demonstrated recent acoustics science fact...

 

What rules acoustics is "timbre" perception as a concrete physical set of invariants reflecting the vibrating sound sources qualities , not abstract Pythagoreans mathemahical ratios... Sound is not an abstract vibrating waves in the air... It comes from a vibrating sound sources endowed with specific qualities we can be trained to perceive.... The most simple one : tap a fruit and you will learn if it is ripe and ready or not ...

Then sound quality is not "subjective " as in delusional... It is "subjective" as in objectively statistically observed physical sound source vibrating invariant qualities perceived by all cultures in the same way ...

 

A musician well trained will distinguish in a relative objective way the differences between different guitar design quality...😊