I play a G-70 Gallagher that I had built in 1973.....it is a Brazilian Rosewood dreadnaught that is the equal to any pre-war Martin I ever heard in volume and tone.....I also play a 1964 Epiphone Eldorado....it's a mohagany dreadnaught - same as the Gibson SJ-N....and it is a LOUD one....Gibson guitars really seem to come into their own at the 40 year mark...I recently decided to buy a little Martin and played a number of them in various music stores, but wound up with an OM-03 Larrivee.....it just sounded better....I run D'Adderio medium pb's on all of my acoustics.....