$580 with a hardcase doesn't sound too bad a deal, and the guys are right about the resale value. But it depends on your budget, your musical ability and your hearing. My budget islimited, my musical ability is poor to middling and I'm a liitle bit "Mutt & Jeff" so I would probably not be able to fully appreciate or do justice to a very expensive guitar.

And, if you can't HEAR a difference, there isn't one.

Bert.