I thought I had replied on this Subject but it must have been a similar thread.
I bought a DCX 1E ( might have been a 100E ) I'm at work and I can't go and check, but it is a cut-away complete with fishman set up and controls and it beats the socks off my D28 in every department - except it carries the stigma of not having real wood sides and back.
A luthier remarked to me " I didn't realise Marin were making guitars from formica". I don't know if our US friends understand "formica" but he was trying to be homourous,albeit in a derogative manner, as, formica is ? / was a name for plastic wood used in Kitchen furniture. Both sounds - whether natural or through a PA System are great in all departments ie bass treble volume , great up to, and, past the 12th fret and I love it. Well worth the price.