I have that almost the other way around, but thats just me. I think it comes down to what you're paying attention too, or obsessing over. I just don't care that much about amps. As long as they sound ok, have enough gain and don't take up too much room I'm happy. My $600 H&K is almost all the amplifier I want. In order to get the remaining 5 or 10% I'd need to spend another $2000 or more. If I was gigging on guitar, "All the amplifier I'd want" would probably get a few more criteria though". I had to spend $2600 to meet my minimum gigging bass rig needs a decade ago.stark wrote:
I'd hazrd a guess that the law of diminishing returns would kick in on guitars at around $1K. Amps at around $3K.
Guitars are a different matter. I've seen nothing under $2000 that I wouldn't want to take to with a blade to meet my requirements. Similarly I've seen nothing over $2500 that was much better in the ways that matter to me. One thing I say about my guitars is that once you get to about $3k, any price increase is probably all cosmetic (functional craziness like 8 strings and onboard wackiness excepted). On the other hand, I've seen a $599 Ibanez that would be perfectly adequate for almost anyone (and with work I could make it kick some asses and take some names). But this game has never been about "adequate" for most of us, has it?
The difference between the $599 RG121 and the $2800 PGM301 is in the fine details, lots of them. The untrained observer wouldn't be able to pick those details, probably not even a beginner guitarist could. But I can... and I think some of those little details are what make you want to pick a certain guitar up day after day and not some other one.
) than upgrading the guitar to $3K.
