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Originally Posted by Howard Emerson
Rob,
The neck joint has no effect on the tone.
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I know of thousands of people who would disagree with that Howard.
That doesn't mean, however, that I am saying that guitars that don't feature the dove tail design element: Collings, Bourgeois, Taylor, etc., I'm not saying these aren't good guitars because clearly they are amazing guitars.
I guess the lower series Martins just aren't that impressive, overall, next to the "better" Martins, and I'm not talking bling factor here - 18 Series are pretty spartan. So maybe neck design is just part of it, but the OP did say he is dissatisfied with the sound of his Martin.
By the way, the D-15, even though it isn't a dove tail, it's a nice sounding guitar. The 15 Series is uniformly pretty good. And they hold up and get better, check out some vintage all hog Martins, amazing.