Gary T,
You answered your own question - everything felt right except the SOUND ;-(
So isn't that information/feeling/intution/paradigm etc.. enough to let your own powers of deduction guide you?
Isn't this what the quest for the Ultimate guitar is, the sound and your feeling that this it or it's wonderful, etc... BUT if there is something not quite right that's more than enough to move on?
Maybe try a Taylor?
Ciao
Stringkiller
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Gee ... I feel I sound just like a marriage counsellor, so what?