I've never cared much for cedar tops on steel string guitars...sitka spruce is what I usually go for...however...

I played 2 Tayor guitars yesterday that were absolutely exceptional, and they both had a cedar top.

One was a large body type (Grand Auditorium or Grand Symphony, I forget which) with rosewood back and sides. It sounds like a powerful, gutsy dreadnought. The other was a smaller Grand Concert, with rosewood back and sides. It also sounded terrific, very surprising amount of volume for a guitar that size, and you can play it hard (loud strumming, I mean) and it handles it just fine. It sounds wonderful played in a delicate finger style too.

I was there for an hour and a half playing those two guitars back and forth trying to decide which one I liked better. It's hard to figure, but I think I like the smaller body one just a tad better. It doesn't have quite as big a bottom end as the large body one, but it does have just a bit more clarity in tone, I think. They are both about $2,100 guitars. The Arts just lowered their prices a bit because of the stronger Canadian dollar which is now at parity with the US dollar.

I was very surprised how good these 2 cedar top guitars sounded. They're both great along the entire sonic range from base to treble, beautifully balanced, powerful volume, and excellent tone in every way.