I've been curious, and at the risk of opening up a can of worms, figured I'd ask. In most interviews with Paul and others in the company, much of the narrative is about how PRS is always striving to push forward, to constantly improve, to constantly innovate both in design and manufacturing process. Updating and inventing new pickups, discontinuing models and designs in favor of newer ones, building things in new ways. In your opinion, as we move into a new decade of production, how do the current models compare to the guitars of the past? I'm not talking about aesthetics, exotic woods, etc. but build quality, sound, consistency, pickup quality, etc. Are the S2s and CEs of now better than higher model guitars of 20 or more years ago due to innovation and manufacturing quality upgrades? Are the guitars more or less the same and it doesn't matter. There are three potential answers more or less:
1. The old (20+ year old) guitars are better as they were more hands on and have "vintage" quality.
2. The newer guitars within the last 5 years or less are better because we've had so many years of quality innovation and invention moving forward.
3. A guitar is a guitar and it does not matter. It might just sound a little different to different ears, but the quality and everything else is equivalent.
-k
1. The old (20+ year old) guitars are better as they were more hands on and have "vintage" quality.
2. The newer guitars within the last 5 years or less are better because we've had so many years of quality innovation and invention moving forward.
3. A guitar is a guitar and it does not matter. It might just sound a little different to different ears, but the quality and everything else is equivalent.
-k