Are All-Solid Wood Guitars Worth It?

All-solid guitars are widely acknowledged as the best sounding acoustic guitars a player can get…but is that always true? And are all laminates created equal? We're doing a deep dive on all of this and more in today's episode of Alvarez TV, where we decide who wins the laminate vs. all-solid wood battle, settled once and for all, definitively. (Kind of.)

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0:00 3 to 1 (Intro Jam)
1:30 Laminate vs. Solid: AD60 & MD60
3:23 Not All Laminates Are Created Equal: Understanding Laminates
5:32 Solid Mahogany vs. Laminated Mahogany
8:38 Laminate vs. Solid Tonewood Tap Test
12:14 Benefits of Laminates
13:09 Benefits of All Solid Wood
15:31 Demo: AD60 (Laminate)
16:01 Demo: MD60BG (All Solid)

Dee is playing an MD60BG: https://alvarezguitars.com/guitar/md60bg.
Chris is playing an AD60: https://alvarezguitars.com/guitar/ad60.

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