All I can do, Richard, is to repeat the old adage, "To each his own, said the lady as she kissed the pig."

I got the Seymour Duncan on the recommendation of our dear old friend, Rick Fielding, and was surprised at how good it sounded. Nice for accompanying a jazz vocalist, because I could get that acoustic rhythm feel, and still have crisp chords--oddly enough, it gives the guitar more balanced response than it has unamplified--and, best of all, it needs no preamp, because it is a loud'n--