Wednesday, March 18, 2026

26 thoughts on “Epiphone AJ220 S Acoustic Guitar Review 2017

  • You can improve the sound by leaning the guitar up against a stereo speaker with the bass turned up. I used to do that while I was at work.

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  • I think it sounds great..It's 319.00 in 2025, Or 449.00/749 for the laminated back and sides vs solid wood model. That's the one I'm trying to buy. Stay Cheap my friend!

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  • I'll just say this. Took the guitar to a tech. He offered to buy it cause it sounded better than his high end Taylor.

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  • Whip, I love watching Bushradical…but when are you going to show us some more cheap guitars?

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  • I bought mine here in Berlin, and had a young fellow from Dresden who was visiting the JustMusic store in Berlin, and I saw this one and since I was a beginner, I asked him since he was playing others just for fun in the showroom, if he would give me his opinion on a few starter guitars for me. I was 55 and hadn't picked up a guitar since I was 17, so I had to start all over. Of the several guitars in the price range I could at that time afford, (around 200 EUR) this fell right in there. The boy and his buddy, picked up two different colors of the same guitar and they took turns showing me how they played and sounded. I am a concert pianist since I started at age 7, and have a different ear for the type of music I like, but something with both Piano and Guitars, I like clean sounds, not so much dirty or muddled ones. When they narrowed the pick down to the AJ220 S Acoustic, they showed me something that BLEW ME AWAY… It has a pickup and a tuner on it. The pickup allows me to hook it up to an acoustic amplifier and can listen to it on headphones (this was before the Mustang Micro came out) So I bought myself an Acoustasonic 15 Amp for Acoustic Guitars on their recommendation in the Amplifier room. I was blown away at how good this sounds attached to all sorts of Amplifiers, and even more so later with the Mustang Micro, and the other Amplifiers I got with lots of built-in sounds. The Marshall Code made this guitar incredible while plugged in. You didn't review that part of the Guitar's features at all in this. Not all plain acoustics come with a built-in pickup and tuner. At the time, I wanted to play something I could plug in and have headphones on as i live in a multi-family home, and in Germany, neighbors can be real bastards if you make noise, even in the daytime. It was the reason I decided against learning Cello, Violin, Viola, and Bagpipes. No joking. As i said the option to plug into headphones didn't come until the Fender Mustang Micro was released a year or two later. But I could practice and get sounds that were amazing and beyond what the guitar itself was capable of standalone. I love this guitar, and I play Flamenco and Spanish Guitar styles on it, and use a looper to record off it. Great Guitar for a really wonderful price, feels great in the hand and the neck is comfortable and not glossy. Has been one of my best purchases, and it's now part of my musical instrumental archives, and I won't give it up. Greetings from Berlin, Germany.

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  • I got on and I liked the slim neck ,the now call it the Epiphone j45 studio, I plan to have my tech change out nut and saddle,and put elixer 12,53 She'll be sweet for the price. Thx

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  • I like the slim neck , good for fingerstyle,also change out the nut and saddle real bone and so elixer strings ,nice sounding Guitar

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  • I think the price of guitars has gone up these past few years. New, after tax, this guitar costs more than $400 canadian currently. For that price you can find a used simon and patrick which is far superior.

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  • God, what you call a cheap guitar, in my country takes me a month whole good salary to get…

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