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

The difference in acoustic guitars is real and detectable to people who play.

"Classical" guitars are a breed of their own. I play steel stringed guitars. IMHO, good to great guitars can be found (new) in the 2K to 8K range. Once you get above that, it becomes an issue of scarcity or name/builder.

A John Arnold, Wayne Henderson or Blazer and Henkes may sell for $5k new, if you're willing to wait several years. But it will easily bring 4 to 5 times that on the used market, BTW, they all make copies of old Martin guitars from usually the pre WW2 era. Prewar Martins are in a league of their own and command 5 and 6 figure prices.

The more expensive guitar sounds clear without haze. The cheaper one sounds dirty and veiled.

I am surprised that different guitars’ sounds are a same way with my system sound. I can hear from >100 my system videos (recorded last few years) in my YT channel and I can hear later videos sound cleaner and detailed without haze. I worked very hard for cleaner speaker sound and I perfected it now.

Also, I can hear better power cords make cleaner sound (like guitar sounds) from 4 PC comparison video below.

PC compared: JPS $700, Zentara $2200, WTv2 $1000, WTPC $2400

To hear cable sounds,
1) click this 18:51 WTPC (This’ll open Youtube window).

2) In YT, make a small YT window (narrow & tall, right half screen) to see the video screen and 2 time stamps (18:51, 4:45 in description) are in the same screen.

3) Click (18:51 WTPC) and listen 1 minute. Click (4:45JPS) and listen 1 min. And repeat. Just relax and feel the difference whatever comes to you when you switch. The difference may not the sound. Alex/WTA

Thank you. A revelation.

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I've been a professional guitarist since 1967. I've owned a LOT of guitars and tonewoods make a huge difference even in electrics. Interestingly every seasoned electric player sort of gets their own tone going...listen to Billy Gibbons using all his weird guitars and his feel and desired tone is kind of the same. I currently own electric guitars with identical pickups that sound and feel utterly different from each other. There are vintage or "collectable" instruments that are stupidly expensive (a store nearby just sold a vintage Les Paul to Joe Bonamassa for 450 grand), but the 200 grand comparison is sort of silly really...stick any Collings guitar in the hands of somebody used to playing a Takamine and watch 'em smile.