JimM

I agree with you 100% on all counts. Mediums would choke this instrument. The vibrations I get from the BP lights are amazing. I am so beyond grateful to be the owner of this instrument. When I’m not playing it I’m gazing at it. I have a set ofJP 80 20s in the wings to try next. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Can’t wait to try the string change.

I have a 2020 1957J 200. I was listening to Vince gill talk about not confusing volume with better. It’s more about tone for me. I have quite a number of Martin’s Gibsons and they all have different voices and their tones are all out of this world but different. A lot of people have the either or comparison almost like there’s some kind of a competition going on and I understand that especially if you can only have one guitar. I know Peter Townsend used a J 200 when he recorded Tommy and Jimmy page on Led Zeppelin one and the sound is phenomenal. as far as volume and rumble is concerned the volume is very loud when I make action higher and it rumbles like thunder. I prefer the action lower less thunder quieter playing like butter. On all my guitars the volume and tone changes depending on the action from low medium or high. I find it that all my guitars have a sweet spot where you maximize tone and volume. Just a hair turn on that truss rod either way will change it. Everything‘s a trade off with these guitars a little more of this but then a little less of that