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I agree with the first sentence.  I thought I was through with PRS guitars after the last one I sold several years ago, a shit box McCarty solidbody that cost a fortune and gave me so much grief because it wouldn't stay in tune, couldn't \"carry\" a tune (sustain was nil), and just sounded *lifeless* and basically--along with certain changes in my lifestyle and redirection of creative drive--facilitated quiting the guitar for a while with the greatest of ease (no instrument should leave you bored with the whole affair of playing music, but this ene sure did).  Although, as I explain elsewhere, I'm now *glad* this break happened.

Now, at present I have a PRS SE Custom Semi-hollowbody that was built in Korea.  Granted, I've possessed a host of incredible guitars in my lifetime, but honestly I was shocked at what I got for a mere 500 bucks--I think we'll all agree no one should spend only 500 on a guitar, because this is a guarantee--or at least it was--that you're getting the musicality of glued sawdust, cheap plastics and scraped metal.  Incidentally, when I first unzipped the gig bag, my wife laughed her ass off as she was the first to notice that there was sandpaper curled inside the resonator hole, as if the guitar was suddenly yanked from the hands of whoever was in the middle of sanding the edges of the sound hole (I've since spent a couple hours sanding the edges with various grades of sandpaper and metal files, until I was satisfied with the results).  But more importantly, the guitar sounds better than any I've played previously in my entire life.  The acoustic resonance is just amazing: I can sit and play for hours without the thing even being plugged in, and love every minute of it--admittedly, plugging in has trumped unplugged since the seymour duncan '59's were installed, along with the schaller M6 tuners (which, along about 10 hours total spent setting up the guitar through various stages of truss and bridge height adjustments & fine-tuning, help maintain the wonderful job the DTR-2 does at getting an instrument to that cloud 9 of tunage where the strings sound like they're melting into each other when the open chords are strummed.