Hey Les. I want to hate this guitar, because it was such an impulse purchase. I walked in for bass strings and walked out with a barely used CU24. And no bass strings.
She really sounds great. I do think my preferred setup for the new XX/15s is a 3-way with coil tap a'la my McCartys and CE24, because I really love these pickups tapped.
That being said, I am having a ball with the 5-way, and the korina bod/neck with the ebony board is really something. It's not a combo I would have gravitated toward or spec 'd, but it sounds pretty special here.
Also, having gravitated toward the wide-fat / pattern profiles as of late, I am digging the pattern thin neck on this (and my CE24) much more than I thought I would. They definitely don't have the barely-there slinkiness of the original wide-thins. Which I enjoy from time to time. But these have enough meat on them to not feel so drastic when switching back and forth between different carves.
So, despite some general buyers' remorse, I am really diggin' her. Thanks!