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I will give you two more ideas:

1-have you considered adding a pickup to the acoustic you already have. I added a Barcus-Berry pickup to one of my acoustics and it sounds very good. I liked it so much that I had it permanently installed in the guitar, i.e. that is now has a plug by the lower pin to plug in a guitar cord.




that was going to be my advice. the $500 budget is the most restrictive factor imho.