Just for comparison

Comparing guitars like those 2 gets tricky, because on paper you see everything except one important thing with Taylors.  The bowled back.  How exactly does one quantify or measure the difference that bowled back contributes too? 

Physcially, it don't seem like much, but when you pick up and play a Taylor with a bowled back, and compare it to any other guitar of similar or virtually exact same size, the difference is big and shocking.

I've always been kind of stunned at how, no matter how beautiful any other small guitar is, whether folk, parlor, whatever etc., that when I A/B it beside a GS Mini, all of a sudden, the GS Mini makes even a fantastic small guitar sound "boxy" in comparison.  Those GS Minis are truly a display of manufacturing and design genius. 

Will do Derick ,.  Although, don't hold your breath.  I have not seen any of the Fender Paramount guitars around any of my guitar stores........yet.  That could change of course.  L&M only recently started carrying the Epiphone line of acoustic guitars, including the Master Built stuff.  So, other new lines could appear at any time.

Edit: before Rob comes in an corrects me  ( LOL! ) I meant the L&M store by me has only recently dedicated a whole wall to the Epiphones, they've always carried a few of them, just not as many as this particular store carries now.

TonyKgull, Over the years, I have had a few Epiphone Guitars, really good value for money.
Haven't owned a master Built model, but the ones I have tried are really very good.
Not to sure what is happening but the quality of the China, and other Asian guitars, including Mexican guitars, are getting very very good.