I've owned several GAD Guilds, regretting selling my GAD-50 Burst but just bought another one, a Burst. I've for several years had the idea that the older "GAD Series" were better than the new "Westerly GAD Series". Example the old GAD-50 vs the new Westerly GAD Series D-150 replacement (same specs). (They took GAD out of the model number, it just says D-150 inside the guitar.) I'm slow to draw conclusions, but I think it's true, the old GAD-50 plays and sounds just wonderful and better, actually not far from a D-55. My GAD-50 is the only guitar I've played for about a month. I like mellow, sing mellow, I put silk strings on it. I hesitate to say, but, well, you can't throw tomatoes at me, but I might enjoy the GAD-50 as much as my Guild DV-62. ~~~
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