PRS goes Strat

[cebreez]

I understand the time element Kat... but the PRS's I've seen were not of significantly better quality if any better at all than that of an American Strat, Carvin, or even a MM for that matter. Of course I'm just splitting hairs. It does come down to personal choice and what looks good and feels good to the player. But too many times we buy to appease our emotions. The stigma of owning a mighty Gibby LP or having a guitar just like Eric Clapton played.

Sorry... Am I getting off topic?

[deeaa*]

Cebreez, maybe OT for this thread but it's a topic much discussed these days...my view is that it used to so that there was a small number of manufacturers in the past, and their stuff was indeed of superior quality, but these days, even the smallest manufacturer can use CNC machines etc. so...

I'd rather say, in many cases, what's there between a $400 guitar and a $1000 guitar really that makes one better than another...nothing, really, in many cases.

Handmade/desired brand will always cost much more. Handmade will cost much more. It is not a question of whether any of them is superior quality; that's what the guitars must cost to make a profit. To the buyer it is just a matter of preference.
This does not apply to multi-thousand dollar guitars however.

I always say, for $400 you can get an electric guitar that plays and sounds just as well as ANY guitar out there no matter the price. If you pay more than that, you should be just getting more beautiful woods, maybe super-long lasting frets, fine cases, the complete experience. Well past $1000, now that's just branding and has nothing to do with quality or such; they just ask those prices because they can. Is a faster processor more expensive to make, as a PC analogy? Not really, actually in some cases slower ones have been more expensive to make because they are MADE slower by disabling circuits off already faster CPU's. It is just marketing, supply and demand.

Loads of analogies in the car world, too.

Now, with respect to guitars, pretty soon the lack of any reasonable quality woods will change the playingfield some...

[bcdon***]

Well past $1000, now that's just branding and has nothing to do with quality or such; they just ask those prices because they can. Is a faster processor more expensive to make, as a PC analogy? Not really, actually in some cases slower ones have been more expensive to make because they are MADE slower by disabling circuits off already faster CPU's. It is just marketing, supply and demand.

Partially true. Chips that run at the fastest speeds are generally more expensive because of wafer yields; that is, only a certain number of chips on the wafer are capable of running (or passing the tests) at certain speeds, so they "cost more." Chips that fail X Ghz, might pass Y-speeds and are branded as Y-Ghz, and ones that fail Y, are sold as Z-Ghz. That said, some chips are in fact 'fused' as lower functional chips because it is cheaper to make a single die and charge more for the fully-functional chip and disable some features for the less-functionally chip.

[deeaa*]

Yep indeed...also, I recall some instances with some GPUs for instance that there was so much demand for cheaper versions of the same chip the maker disabled functions off perfectly working higher class chips to meet the demand for lower-bracket ones.

[cebreez]

Thanks deeaa... that was well put. And thank you bcdon. I feel so much better about my off topic comments.