I know people who have returned recently-purchased Taks to music stores and traded up to Taylors and Martins. They had fallen in love with the Taks' amplified sound when they test-drove the guitars, but soon found them lacking when played acoustically.

If you do most of your playing through an amp, they're fine guitars. If you mostly play unplugged on the back porch, those 15 series Martins PennyBlack mentioned are a good value and sound great acoustically.