First off, I agree with Seamus - I love Takamines, too!
My sweetheart guitar is a custom-made Breedlove but my workhorse guitar is a Takamine Santa Fe (cedar) and it's back-up is a Takamine 2001 LTD; my third Takamine is a Hirade classical model.

The finest (and I've been around awhile) sounding a/e guitar I have ever heard, under any conditions (festival, pub or coffeehouse) was a $600 Takamine mahogony guitar(I can't recall the model number but you've seen them around) in the hands of Andrew Hardin playing behind the singing of Tom Russell, with the guitar plugged into a L.R. Baggs direct box and going through the house system - I could not believe my ears. Hardin is a most excellent player and we agreed on two things - he had a fine sound tech that evening, and, the Baggs D/I was the difference. Cheers.