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The older ones were essentially PRS Customs with bolt-on maple necks, adding some Fender-line ‘snap’ to the tone. They’re are every bit as good as a Custom - albeit with a slightly different character.
I concur that an S2 with swapped pickups is a better buy than a current CE. The CEs are made on the S2 production line anyway and the only thing they have above the the rest of them component-wise are the pickups - the 85/15s are quite good, actually. But the rest of the guitar is pretty compromised to hit a price point.
All things being equal an older one will always be a much better guitar for a fraction of the price, IMO.
So my question is why if most machine made pickups bar boutique hand wound stuff can be made to the same formula in Korea save
ing on labour and producing at lower price.
Most mainstream after market pickups fitted to guitars are machine wound.
Are people saying PRS did not spec properly or is it just the stigma of Asian pickups,
I've never compared the SE model to the same core version but if the core really is better they must be some of the best pickups in the world.
I think that for very cheap pickups on entry level guitars, they use cheaper wire and magnets etc. so the machine made pickups are actually worse but at the level of PRS SE I believe they're of a quality where any alternative is just different rather than objectively worse in any way.
I actually prefer the feel of 24 because the 12th fret is way up the neck and it's so easy to play there and above. But because of the sound of the neck pickup, all my other guitars have fewer frets so it feels strange playing on a different length neck. If it wasn't for the neck pickup problem I think I'd always go for 24 but for me the neck pickup thing is a huge deal.
AFAIK it's fully USA made, not same production line as an SE (which are Far East, no?)