When you buy a new acoustic guitar you need to make the right choice and the right choice is always an informed choice. Reading acoustic guitar reviews ensures that you make that right choice as it will either re-inforce your resolve that are making the right decision or dissuade you from buying that acoustic guitar you previously assumed was so good.
There are two kinds of reviews that you need to consider. The expert review first and then the user review. From the experts you will get the complete low down on the guitar you want and how it compares to others. From users you will know whether their purchase has lived up to expectation or not.
If a person has had many years of experience playing the guitar they are definitely qualified to write expert acoustic guitar reviews. The number of guitars they have reviewed should also span that of many different manufacturers and they should also be objective in their reviews so as it does not reflect personal preferences. And if there is any bias it should be justified. The expert reviewer need not be someone with a music degree or anything like that. It just needs to be someone that has in depth experience playing different acoustic guitars whose opinion is going to be balanced and well thought out.
When it comes to finding user acoustic guitar reviews online the best place is websites that offer a number of reviews by a variety of guitarist for each of the instruments. You will need to seek out reviews from guitarist whose type of music match yours. So if you prefer classical guitar play, those are the types of reviewers you should read the reviews of. On the other hand if rock is your thing then that is the reviews you should go and look at.
When you do a search for these reviews, you will more than likely be presented with millions of results. But there are a couple of tricks that will help you filter this information regardless of the type of review that you are looking for. What you should do is put the search term in quotes ie "acoustic guitar reviews". This neat little trick reduces the result found in Google from 1.5 million to just over 20,000, and in yahoo, from 17 million to just 6000 for the term "acoustic guitar reviews".
This trick will also work nicely if you are looking for individual acoustic guitar reviews. For example if you are looking for reviews on the Martin DX1, by just typing it on the search engine you will get almost 40,000 results. But using quotes as in "martin dx1" you will narrow it down to 10,000.
If you want to narrow your search for specific acoustic guitar reviews even more, you can all add the plus (+) sign after the phrase and then the word "review". This will only display sites that have that exact phrase on the website making life even easier. For instance, let's say you put "martin dx1" + reviews. You will get around 500 results by doing so, giving you more relevant results. But you can also add to this if you need to really pin down on a particular aspect of this type of guitar, like in what colors the guitar come into for example, or anything you are curious in finding out. These two small tips will certainly make your life much easier when you are looking for acoustic guitar reviews and accelerate your decision in whether you want to buy that acoustic guitar you always wanted.
