I had a 414Ce....loud but "harsh"......traded for a 514CE....sweet and nice.......should have kept it........went back to Taylor last year,all I could afford at the time was a used 314CE....all the ones I had seen or played over the last ten years I thought were a little too bright and thin-sounding,although wonderfully playable......My 314CE is a "30th anniversary"[few extra cosmetic features which I would never pay for new].......it seems to have more "Bottom"than most,a little sweeter and rounded in tonality,somewhat similar to a D16 Martin.....perhaps they use a slightly better grade of Saepele/Mahogany ??..so,I guess it's still a bit of a crapshoot..... my wife says"one of these days you'll smarten up!.....I say "yeah,but I don't wanna'rush into it"....