I wonder if that comment from 2011, posted by one Ed Sheeran, wouldn't actually happen to be a Takamine sales and marketing representative...

(Not that an Ed Sheeran endorsement would exactly have me rushing out to buy a guitar...)

Anway, for what it's worth (this thread is YEARS old!), I played a £1400 Takamine Jumbo sized guitar recently and it was really great sounding, better than more expensively priced Gibsons and Guilds.

But still not, in my opinion, really worth the £1400 asked.

The sound of any guitar is in the ear of the listener. And of course in the fingers of the player. Somewhere in the intersection of how much the player likes playing it, what the guitar sounds like played by a particular player, and what the listener's tastes are lies how the chimera of how "good" a guitar is.

Right now the cheapo Tanglewood TFA XB sounds like the greatest guitar ever to me, but that's cos I just bought one for next to nothing secondhand, and cos it's a novelty to me to play an Orchestra size model.