Jeremy compares cool and affordable vintage D25 and D35

[RobWB]

See .

 

[RobWB]

Love all my Guilds.All USA made

 

[RobWB]

Agreed. If you go to the end and hear his D55, it's a startling difference.

Yes,The D55 was in its own class.I own one but I play my D40 more.Love Guild guitars

 

[fronobulax]

fronobulax,
I've always wondered if some sort of objective measuring system could be derived by making voice prints of guitars playing identical songs or scales and comparing them.
Yes, there would be some variables because of as you said, the nature of wood, but it would eliminate some of the inherent human pre-conceived biases that always creep into the "Listen to this video" comparisons.
RBSinTo

A simpler problem would be to devise a "measurement" that correctly identified whether two samples were the same guitar or not. If you can do that then you can fingerprint two instruments, look at the measured differences and see how those differences map to some of the subjective factors. But if you have human hands and ears involved then at the very least you will lose repeatability.

 

[JohnW63]

I think the best we can do is have as good a playback system as we can for these audio comparison reviews and expect the guitars in the video/audio clip will be treated as identically as they can. That way everything within the video reference frame can be taken as a valid comparison. You may not super accurately say that Guitar A in clip A is better than Guitar B in clip B, but they can be data points to build a trend with.