The Taylor 562 all mahogany is one guitar I’ve bought twice.
The natural compressor that is Mahogany does a nice job clarifying all the sounds a 12 string makes.
I prefer X braced Taylor 12 string guitars. I think I hear the claimed improved sustain of V braced guitars, but on a 12 string, I actually might prefer a little less sustain to again clarify the sounds.
I have not played a cedar 12 string, but I did have a Cedar top 514 for a while and thought it was the best sounding Tayor made. It didn’t have the rigidity of spruce and it had less “headroom” meaning that hard strumming would overdrive it. Because of that, I probably wouldn’t choose it for 12 string, but I would still like to be proved wrong about that.
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