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  1. I just received an answer from Gibson; indeed, it's a solid top! Thanks for all the replies. As far as the EJ-220 is concerned, my EJ-200 doesn't have that E on the front, so I can't help you with that...
  2. Yeah that's kind of the problem. On the inside it says "EJ200CE", despite the fact that its serial nr tells me that it's guitar from 2014, so it should be a solid one (I was told). So I was hoping there would be anyone else with a solid top but ej-200ce written on the inside.
  3. It's almost impossible to see for me, since there's quite a thick layer of varnish on the edge of the sound hole. I checked the SN and it's from june 2014. I guess/hope that it's a solid top then. As long as there's no one else with "EJ-200SCE" written on the inside I'll give it the benefit of the doubt!
  4. Thanks for the reply. I just plugged it in and it sounds really good through the speakers! :) I guess I'll just tell myself that it's a solid top, there's to much paint on it to really check it myself.
  5. Thanks everybody for the replies, I bought it! =) I've got one more question. The store manager assured me that this one had a laminated top, but the logo on the inside says "EJ-200CE" and not "EJ-200SCE". Is this normal, and the case for all EJ-200 with a solid top? Please comfirm anyone, because the solid top was one of the main reasons I bought it. For the rest; I tried several others in the price range. There were some others who sounded perhaps a little better, or at least a lot warmer and louder. Presumeable because these weren't cutouts and their top is much thinner. The difference in sound quality wasn't that big, it mainly was just a little louder. They didn't have the preamp however, so I decided that the preamp + the fact that it looked far better (I know this shouldn't matter that much, but still...) made up for the fact that it sounded a bit less loud. I'm looking forward playing on it!
  6. Thanks for the replies, very much appreciated. I'm quiteb tall myself so I don't think the geometry will be a problem. I'll be sure to check it out and to also try out some other options. I'm really a beginner who's first instrument is the piano, but I'm loving the guitar so much I'd like to buy myself something decent. The more narrow fret also shouldn't be a problem, if anything, with the other acoustic guitars I played it even played more easily for me and sounded much better. This was basically what I wanted to hear, it doesn't seem that the possibly (or allegedly, since you don't confirm this) better sound doesn't weigh against the preamp & solid top. I think I'm convinced buying the ej-200sce, but I'll be sure to check out some other models to compare. I'll let you know what I ended up buying ;)
  7. I'm a beginning guitarist and I'm looking for an upgrade for my old, rusty classical guitar. For the money that I want to spend (not more than €400), I've heard a lot of good things about the EJ-200 + it also looks gorgeous in my opinion. I've got a few questions about the Epiphone EJ-200 howver and I'd be very glad if you could help me out. I've heard that the new models (EJ-200SCE) have a solid top rather than a laminated one, is this correct? Does anyone know if it actually sounds better than the older models with a laminated top? I've heard that in general solid tops are superior to a laminated one, but a cheap solid top can also be worse than a quality laminated one. Secondly, at first I wanted to buy the normal, non-cutout version, because it apparently has a fuller and richer sound. I noticed that Epiphone doesn't make them anymore and have a hard time finding these second hand. I've found one from 1995 which I could buy for about €250, but I figured that for a bit more money I'd better buy a new, cutout versions. My reasoning is that the fact that the EJ-200SCE is new, has solid top and has a esonic2 preamp system (the old EJ-200 doesn't I assume?) makes up for the fact that it's a cutout. I'd love to play them next to each other to compare the sound, but I don't think that's possible anymore since most shops don't sell the old version anymore. Does the non-cutout really sound so much better?
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