Le sillet de chevalet est mal ébavuré, il faut le finir au papier de verre (inacceptable sur une guitare à 300€, mais sur une guitare à moins de 100€ je laisse passer), je met une étoile en moins tout de même sur la fabrication, Epiphone by Gibson pour garder leur réputation haut de gamme, pourrait faire un effort sur cette Chinoise, surtout sur ce genre de détail qui joue sur le son. Les cordes d'origine sont pourris (elles laissent des traces noir sur les doigts, et sonnent comme une poule à qui on taperait sur le crane), il faut les changer dès l'achat par des Gibson, ou GHS, les cordes d'origine trouveront agréablement leur place dans un poubelle. Je me suis finalement tourné vers cette Epiphone DR100 NT, et je doit dire que je suis satisfait. You won't regret!Īprès avoir testé plusieurs guitares sous la barre des 150€, j'ai été très déçu. I highly recommend it to both beginners and professionals. If you want a finishing touch on your purchase, add a set of strings to your cart based on your taste and it's guaranteed that you'll get the old sound you love.įor such a low price, this instrument is pure GOLD. The guitar itself is very loud and has a pleasant tone. I used to have 130-Euro acoustic before this purchase, and by all means this Epiphone owns that one - in terms of playability, it's remarkable and simply brilliant. The lows and highs are all clearly felt and you always get that interesting vintage haze in your chords. After a few days of listening to the samples, I realized Epiphone DR-100 is really the best thing I can get in this price-range that would still have that vintage warm tone with enough depth. As mentioned before, my comparison was in principle out of balance, because at the top of the pyramid I had Martin D45 and D28 as the reference tone. I started the blindfolded test with this Epiphone here and whole lot of other Epiphone models up to 200-300 EUR and almost any other brands available on Thomann in that price-range. It is great that Thomman offers sound samples for the guitars, otherwise my purchase would have been unfruitful. I am a lover of the 70's folk artists and I was looking for something that would compete with Martin D28 and/or Martin D45 in terms of tone, blind-folded. The first and most important criterion for me was the tone, warmness, and depth of tone. I started off by venturing into local shops and trying a plethora of acoustics from different brands (mainly those that were available on Thomann). On the contrary I was looking for a good acoustic guitar with a reasonable price that would at the same time fit my budget range (which was not higher than 500 EUR). Let me start off by saying I have played acoustic guitars for almost a decade now and I did not buy this product because I was looking for a very cheap guitar.