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Yes, they're ultimately just tools but is it not ok to want nice tools?
Performer- Professional - AO - Ultra?
The void between Performer and Professional is £500 huge.
I don't see how the prices can rise as much as they have.
Some people like £5 bottles of wine, some don't, so the market caters for all tastes and budgets. But buying a £20 bottle of wine when you can get one for £5 is neither materialistic or being flashy.
I thought it was expensive at the time, but it's increasingly looking like a serious bargain.
By the time I save up for a £4,000 Les Paul they will be £6,000.
I'll give my analogy. A house is overpriced. Depending where it's made will dictate its sale price which will typically be several hundred thousand pounds. But when it comes down to it, it's the same as any other house insofar as it's several tons of bricks arranged in various different configurations, some wood, some nails and a few bits of copper wiring thrown in for good measure.
Ian
Lowering my expectations has succeeded beyond my wildest dreams.
Ian
Lowering my expectations has succeeded beyond my wildest dreams.
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There is also a grey area where someone's preference (e.g. specific neck shape) isn't available on an instrument under a grand but is available on one that costs 2 grand. It's not that it couldn't be on the cheaper one, sometimes it just isn't. That's when it gets to paying a lot more for something purely because it has your preferred spec, even though it's not objectively any better than a spec you don't prefer that's available on a cheaper one. I've done this before and it irked me to pay so much extra when I would have been completely happy with the quality of a cheaper instrument if they just happened to have a particular spec. But then it comes down to begrudgingly paying more and having what I want or settling for something different to my preference.
I think a lot of it is caused by companies creating artificial price points; i.e. they often reserve desirable features for more expensive models, not because adding them would increase the price by much at all, but just to create more demand for the higher priced models.
I know that at the very high level they go to "wood libraries" and hand pick pieces of wood that they believe will be good for guitars, I'm talking more at the £500 - £1000 - £2000 levels where it's mass produced.
P.S. I'm not in the "wood doesn't affect tone" camp. I'm in the "without real evidence, both sides are guessing camp" with my own guess being that it does affect tone.