no doubt about it. MARTIN GUITARS ARE THE BEST IN THE WORLD

Except Collings, Froggy Bottom, Mario Proulx -just limiting it to ones I own. Also, by rep, Santa Cruz, Bourgeois, and about a zillion other small makers and individual luthiers.

I will concede that the standard for good steel-string flat top guitars is Martin. But a lot of others have taken the standard and run with it.

Peter.