I own and/or have owned Ryan, Charis, Goodall, R. Taylor, Taylor, and Avalon.
After deciding it was time for an OM I acquired a very nice, used Collings OM1 and to my surprise, it's one of my favorite guitars that I've owned.
Build quality is impeccable of course, playability and neck is excellent, and the tone is superb. It's a really great guitar for finger style and flat picking.
Having had the blessing of all of these fine instruments I think I'm qualified, if that's really the right word to use, to say that Collings definitely competes!!
Just my opinion of course!
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