The best - close your eyes and shootout with any acoustic or electro acoustic: Taylor comes up tops for guitars under five grand peanuts or whatever kind of money you bank is still using;-)
See
http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/4089/dream.html
For the best acoustic guitar ever - acoustic or electro acoutic.
Here's a site with pictures of a Taylor EC 316 Electro acoustic guitar. Use Elixir strings, they make good acoustic guitars sound even better for a good time (sounds better than a long time - like 3 months of 2/3 gigs a week?).
I also play with Stirling Austin in StirlingBruce. Stirling has a
Taylor 7 series (ie top of the line , very light, fantastic sound, twin pickup system, great bass response, shimmering mids and glassy highs see
http://membres.lycos.fr/stringkiller/sataylor/index.htm
and for my box of tricks to tweak acoustic performances see
http://www.fortunecity.se/hultsfred/notstallet/405/gigbag0502/agb2.html
Other Stirling Burce concert pics at
http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/Bayou/1355/soundfin.html
Hope this helps your quest for which guitar and which tone to bliss the audience out.
Stringkiller