Eastman Guitars is Changing Their Neck Joint? | New 2022 Eastman Tone-Tite Neck Joint Blind Test

Necks aside, you guys are becoming my favorite YouTube channel. I like these longer videos where John and Jeremy discuss these things. Great demos as well! Thank you all for the work you do for the Eastman guitar community!

Guitar A was the clear winner in my mind. B a close second, D took third and C was the oinker of the bunch. I really didn’t hear much I liked with guitar C. Great demo and really a interesting comparison!!

I picked A and D that sounded the best and those were both without the tone tite. That is very interesting.

Middle of the blind tests now and A and D sound the best to my ear.

Im old and I have old fashion tendencies about a lot of things. A dovetail neck joint on a guitar speaks of tradition and it takes high quality workmanship to get it right. Quality craftsmanship is thing of real beauty. The first 'bolt on' guitar neck that I ever became aware of was the Taylor guitars. Ack!! A bolt on neck on an acoustic guitar? Blasphemy! For that reason alone, I avoided Taylor guitars like the plague for a couple of decades. Then a few years ago I acquired a Taylor and well...I guess I've softened a bit about it. The Taylor is a fine guitar even if the neck does bolt on, so I guess it's OK for me now. It's so OK, that I recently purchased an Eastman guitar that has a bolt on neck, and it's also a very fine guitar. BUT, if the choice was there with Taylor and Eastman, I would have selected a dove tail one because that's how I roll.

I heard guitar C as the most different sound. The dreadnought sound was close in both guitars with the dovetail OM (D) not far behind. But the OM with tone tight did not have as much base presence to my ears. All beautiful guitars and it totally depends on what the player wants. 👍Great demo.

All the guitars 🎸, sounded great, but I like the sound of both Eastman 20D, I would prefer either one, I think its all in what any acoustic player prefers in buying a guitar, I own Eastmans, Bourgeois, Martin and Taylor, they are all great guitars 🎸 Eastman is building some amazing guitars, keep on picking guys!

‘B’ wins in my opinion but A is close with D honorable mention, C is my last place finisher but, all are great sounding guitars.

I listened to this through my Imac with an M-audio DI and great headphones. The dovetail absolutely kicked butt. Less volume but WAY more pleasing tone. In fact through the headphones I disliked the sound of the tone tight. It is harsh and brittle and not pleasing. This reminds me of all the telecaster people who say they need to "improve" the original ash tray bridge because of all the "problems" with it, except that those" problems" are what give it it's character and make it a classic.The difficulties of manufacturing a dovetail and repairing one, as if anyone buying one of these guitars is going to playing it in twenty five or thirty five years which is when it might need a neck reset, are well worth the more pleasing tone you get from it. Eastman I hope you are listening.....

Tonto was also described as the Lone Ranger's... trustly sidekick. Silver was his horse.

Great job guys. After demoing and owning so many guitars, I still can’t decide which neck joint I think is best lol.

WOW !!! FANTASTIC !!! Greetings from Europe , Estonia.

"A" was best sounding but 3 of the 4 had so much buzzing going on that it hindered good clear listening to actual tone...Setups should be done more accurately to eliminate annoying string buzzing which clouds the actual tone. Just listen and compare lack of string buzzing on any videos from players like David Grier, Bryan Sutton, Kenny Smith, Jake Workman, Molly Tuttle etc.

I liked the sound of the AC722ce.

Hmm, interesting, I found in both cases the bass was fuller with the tone tite system - more so with E40D, and way too much buzz on all of them, I prefer a cleaner sound - this would be fixed with a little more height to the action.

All sound good. The dovetail sound best to be. They have the most bass. However, I could barely tell with the dreadnoughts which was which. The AC models were more noticeable, but honestly, those differences could come from the uniqueness of just those two two guitars. It's hard to know for sure.

I came back again and as a dovetail owner and 50 years of guitars...I think that all sounded good. I recently bought a Martin CEO 7 because of the true dovetail neck..the Eastman was a close second, but only $350 less and I'm not into bling that much.

For me ( and I am not an expert) the C guitar ( tone tight) sound it the most Natural : and it was a blind test!

I prefer the two with the dovetail neck joints as they sounded like they had more bass BUT it does not mean the other two sound bad just different. Every ear is different depends what you like.

I haven't found any Eastman dealers around Sonoma. I found my first, an E40om, on consignment. Then I got an E8om used as well. So I'm thinking I know all there is to know about Eastman only to discover there is another huge series I know nothing about. You kind of hinted around at that, which actually helped. A more in depth explanation and comparison of each guitar in each series would be great. You'd probably have to break that into several episodes.