老外眼中的中国吉他（转贴自著名的harmony-central）
这是我在harmony-central偶然看到的一篇评论（当时看到居然有VENSON的评论时已经让我快晕倒了）。能看英文的人耐心看看吧，挺简单的。我看的时候心里有说不出的感觉。我自己真有这样一把GT-801U，一模一样。
Venson GT-801U
Summary
Features 7
Sound N/A
Action, Fit, & Finish N/A
Reliability/Durability 6
Customer Support N/A
Overall Rating 10
Price Paid: US $54.00
Purchased from: N/A
some department store in Guanzhou, China
Features: 7
This is a 30th anniversary model from a company that calls itself the oldest guitar maker in China. I'd never heard of the company but i happened to be travelling in China and found this in a department store along with other guitars by the same company. Black to red sunburst, above avg. flamed top, bound neck, head and body, rosewood bridge, closed tuners, flowery shaped little inlaid position markers on a rosewood fingerboard, traditional center soundhole, adjustable truss rod, single cutaway.
Sound: N/A
The key to understanding why i give this guitar high marks is the price - talk about bang for the buck! I would say this guitar clearly doesn't sound as good as a Taylor or Gibson, for example, but it sounds damn good, easily compares to a yamaha/washburn/etc in the $200 to$350 range and beats the crap out of the Fender acoustics I've played. The sound is a little thin and pronounced on the high end, but it's balanced and there's enough bass and middle, so the sound is good and clean. Oddly, I found that putting light gauge strings on this guitar sounds awful and they feel mushy - a set with an .011 on top feels like.009! So I went to .013 and it feels fine.
Action, Fit, & Finish: N/A
For the money, exceptional. Otherwise, darn good. No sags in the topcoat, no rough spots, all the frets set tight, clean, no sharp edges or exposed bits, feels great, well balanced, tuners work very very well, nice and smooth, intonation is perfect, action needed a little tweaking to lower it, but all i had to do was file down the bridge saddle, set up was generally fine. One goof: the position markers above the twelfth fret are all one fret off! In other words, they are all placed one fret behind where they are supposed to be, but the Chinese don't do a lot of guitar playing that I could see - they make 'em and sell 'em but I heard very little music in China using guitars - even the modern MTV stuff is all samplers and keyboards and drum machines
Reliability/Durability: 6
Well, guitar looks like it will hold up. Here's one indication. When i bought it, i wanted a hard shell case to pack it in for the flight home, but i couldn't find a hard shell case anywhere in Guanzhou, where i bought it (a city of 6 million with several large music stores). Anyway, i finally thought to myself, "Well, it was shipped from the factory to the store in a cardboard box, let's give it a shot." So i put it in the cardboard box it came in with some socks and t-shirts around it, taped it shut, put it on the plane and it arrived just fine (after changing planes from Guanzhou to NYC three times).
Customer Support: N/A
couldn't tell you and i've never seen these sold in the USA and i'm certainly not going back to China to get it fixed! :-)
Overall Rating: 10
Like I said, you can't beat this for the price. Talk about bang for the buck, you couldn't buy an acoustic guitar this nice in the USA for $54 brand new. I'm kicking myself for not buying the exact same model with built in electronics (pickup and top mounted slider controls for bass, treble, mid and volume) - that one cost $75.00
Submitted by charles vrtacek at 11/18/2001 16:40