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Location: Chicago | Dave got me thinking: I've never played a Tak. Before I get out to GC... What are your impressions on Tak v. O, best v. best? The sharpest Tak v. an Adamas? Tone? Lead? Rhythm etc....
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Depends on price like everything else.
If you want to compare the Adamas line it would have to be against the cream of the Tak line....the EF75 or the 45th.
Cool Tube is a better preamp than anything Ovation/Adamas has.
Other than that......it's all wood vs the synthetic.
For the money, the BG series (bluegrass) would be very hard to beat. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Oh, and Dave says the Takamine "Singer/Songwriter" model is his "go to" guitar! |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | You can't compare any Takamine to any Adamas. Different animals. How do you compare Pepsi to Hubcaps?
If you like the sound of a woody guitar like a martin or collings then Takamine has some great offerings. And like T28 said, Tak electronics are second to none. |
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Location: Newington, CT | Hubcaps taste better than Pepsi. All the blind taste tests prove it conclusively. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | apples and orangutans |
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Location: New Hampsha | I'd rather lick an apple.... |
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Location: Chicago | You CAN compare if you have a precise frame of reference. Here's my story (a rerun about Martins):
"I really did it two Saturdays ago: got to a gig with everything BUT my Ovation. I had planned to use either my Adamas 1581 or the 1117 Legend of 1974 vintage equipped with a Fishman ProFix pickup. It was my FANTASTIC luck that the proprietor’s husband owns an acoustic-electric which he very generously loaned me for the gig. So for the first time in my life I held the storied Martin guitar in my hands. I had no time to waste. Plugged in and, BAM! Play. A bunch of original tunes plus our covers of Corea’s “Spain” & “No Mystery”, Gismonti’s “Frevo Rasgado”, DiMeola’s “Mediterranean Sundance” etc. etc. No one complained but I must say that I sorely missed the Ovation. While the Martin has a “polite” and mellow sound across the octaves it simply cannot muster the low-end growl or razor-sharp sustaining highs of the Ovation. I understand why singers love Martins: they are a soft carpet of support and complement a vocal very nicely. But when you need to cut through percussion and the sound of a strong partner on an Ovation Elite you need an Ovation to match. Perhaps the most obvious thing is the O’s are so LOUD, they have real fire-power. Our friends at the Ovation Fan Club call them “cannons”. So, if the Martin were a gun and I a soldier in country, the enemy woulda nailed me.
Like Forest Gump sez: “and that’s all I have to say about that!” |
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