Marc,

That looks like a pretty interesting pickup system - not that unlike the Taylor Expression system (minus the microphone). Shadow are a respected pickup maker.

If you paid similar prices to what they sell for here in the US, then it's a fair priced guitar. You wouldn't have been able to do much better for advertised features vs. price. The J body style should give you lots of low end, even though it's a laminate guitar.

The pickup system alone would run $200 due to the dual pickup design and the interesting way in which the bridge pickup has a pre-amp right at the bridge. I haven't seen that before.

I will be very interested to hear how it sounds. I will say that I love the Shadow P7 pickup system in my classical guitar.

And with that unique 2 pickup system, this is really not something you could have installed yourself. Most of my thoughts of the combined terminology of 'acoustic-electric' are that no such thing exists. I would say that most products sold that way are simply acoustic guitars with cheap pickup systems thrown in.

However, multiple-pickup systems like what you have in this guitar, and with what Taylor sells in their 'expression' system, are exceptions to this, in my opinion. You should have lots of tonal variety to what comes out of the pickup. It would be really interesting to hear what it sounds like with one pickup going to left channel and the other going to the right channel.

-Scott

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