.

Correspondingly, what does select spruce top mean?

"select spruce top" means laminate. if it's a solid top, better than 99% of the time it will actually say solid.

Additionally, are spruce top guitars good? Spruce. Spruce is the most popular wood used for guitar tops, and recognisable by its pale colour and (usually) understated figuring. The reason for its popularity is because it has a tone that makes it a very good 'all-rounder'.

Just so, what is the difference between solid top guitars and laminate top?

A solid top refers to the soundboard, that's the part of the acoustic guitar the audience sees. At this price point many acoustics will be all laminate, meaning often even the soundboard is not a solid piece of wood but one that has been thinly veneered and glued to create one piece of wood.

Do laminate guitars improve with age?

Laminate don't age, it only lift. There are a lot of guitars out there with solid top and laminate sides/back and those do sound better as they age. But for all laminate guitars, not only do they not improve noticably over the years, but they tend to be lower quality instruments and more issues develop with them.