{"title":"Live Unboxing","description":"\u003cp\u003eEverything on this page came out of a shipping box on camera minutes ago. These are the actual units, listed before they've been photographed, spec'd out, and put on the floor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFull photos and specs come later. What you get right now is the first opportunity to purchase one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery instrument still ships after the same 23-Point Professional Inspection as anything else we sell. Instruments over $1,000 carry the Dread-Not Guarantee: a 30-day in-home trial and a 1-year 90% trade-in credit, pre-tax, less round-trip shipping.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis page is shoppable during the stream and for one hour after we sign off. After that, these instruments go through our standard listing process and reappear in their model collections.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"taylor-14ce-grand-auditorium-acoustic-electric-6081","title":"Taylor 14ce Grand Auditorium Acoustic-Electric #6081","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Taylor 14ce puts a full-size Grand Auditorium body and onboard electronics within reach at the most accessible price point in Taylor's cutaway acoustic-electric lineup, built for players who want stage-ready output without stepping up to the 200 Series and its Expression System 2 pickup.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA solid torrefied spruce top gives the 14ce an already-broken-in voice, with the extra headroom and dynamic range torrefaction adds over an untreated top. Layered sapele back and sides push the midrange forward and tighten up the low end compared to rosewood or walnut, similar to mahogany but with a touch more punch and less overtone complexity — a voice that stays articulate whether it's driven hard with a flatpick or worked quietly with fingerstyle. Taylor's C-Class bracing adds sustain and low-end presence on top of that, so single notes ring a beat longer than the body size alone would suggest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere the 14ce sets itself apart from nearly every other Taylor in the catalog is its electronics: instead of Taylor's own Expression System or ES-B pickup, this model ships with a Fishman Presys VT preamp, a proven third-party system with onboard EQ and a built-in tuner that plugs straight into a PA or acoustic amp without coloring the guitar's natural voice. Appointments stay clean and functional — a West African Crelicam ebony fingerboard and bridge, tortoise pickguard, black hardware, and a matte top and back finish. For a player who wants a stage-capable Grand Auditorium at the most accessible price point in Taylor's electronics-equipped lineup, the 14ce is built exactly for that job.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Acoustic Shoppe is an Authorized Taylor Premier Dealer and Gold Label Advantage Dealer. Every instrument ships after a full \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/inspection\"\u003e23-point professional inspection\u003c\/a\u003e by our in-house repair tech. 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Cedar has a more compliant cell structure than spruce, so it responds fully at a lighter touch and reaches its tonal ceiling at lower playing volumes; Scalloped V-Class Bracing with Relief Rout channels that responsiveness into more sustain and cleaner intonation up the neck rather than looseness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCedar's softer attack gives up some of spruce's percussive snap in exchange for a note that blooms the instant a string is touched, with less pick-attack transient and more of the note's body up front. Paired with rosewood's deep low end and long, complex decay, the 714ce favors fingerstyle playing and dynamic strumming over hard flatpicking — a fingerpicked chord opens up and lingers rather than cutting off cleanly, giving arrangements a fuller, more layered sound. It suits a singer-songwriter working a quiet room more than a bluegrass picker chasing stage volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Grand Auditorium body carries a Venetian cutaway, a West African Crelicam Ebony fingerboard and bridge with a Reflections inlay suite in green abalone, and a Taylor Claria pickup system with soundhole-mounted volume, Mid-Contour, and tone controls plus an under-saddle pickup for dependable amplified tone. It ships in a natural gloss finish with a Brown Taylor Deluxe Hard Shell Case. Every 714ce ships under our \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/dread-not-guarantee\"\u003eDread-Not Guarantee\u003c\/a\u003e — a 30-day in-home trial and a full year to trade it in for 90% credit toward anything else in the store, backed by a free humidity monitoring kit. For players building a fingerstyle or singer-songwriter rig around touch sensitivity and tonal complexity, the 714ce fills exactly that role.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Acoustic Shoppe is an Authorized Taylor Premier Dealer and Gold Label Advantage Dealer. Every instrument ships after a full \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/inspection\"\u003e23-point professional inspection\u003c\/a\u003e by our in-house repair tech. 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Set on Taylor's Grand Auditorium body, the guitar carries the full Builder's Edition treatment: an Action Control neck joint, scalloped V-Class bracing with a relief rout, and a Kona Burst finish over gloss koa that lets the wood's natural chatoyance come through instead of covering it up. It is built for a player who wants koa's distinctive tonal signature and an all-koa look without stepping outside Taylor's V-Class platform.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKoa behaves differently than the spruce-and-rosewood pairings most players know. It comes out of the case tighter and more midrange-forward, with a compressed snap in the highs that gradually opens into a warmer, more complex voice as the top ages and breaks in. Scalloped V-Class bracing keeps that midrange focus from turning boxy, adding sustain and improving intonation up the neck so chords stay in tune with themselves even under a capo. The build rewards fingerstyle playing and open-tuned singer-songwriter work especially well, where koa's forward midrange and quick note decay let individual notes separate cleanly, while the Grand Auditorium body still supplies enough low-end push to hold up in a strummed rhythm part.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe appointments make the Builder's Edition tier obvious at a glance: a Paua single-ring rosette and a matching Paua spring vine fingerboard inlay set against West African Crelicam ebony, gold Gotoh 510 tuners with gold buttons, and an ebony bridge finished with green abalone-dotted bridge pins. Onboard, Taylor's new Claria pickup system — introduced on the Next Generation line — adds a soundhole-mounted Mid-Contour control alongside volume and tone, giving players direct control over midrange frequencies instead of just blending bass and treble. Every K24ce ships in Taylor's brown Deluxe hardshell case under our \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/dread-not-guarantee\"\u003eDread-Not Guarantee\u003c\/a\u003e — a 30-day in-home trial and a full year to trade it in for 90% credit toward anything else in the store, backed by a free humidity monitoring kit. It is a guitar built for the player chasing a genuinely rare tonewood combination and a stage-ready electronics package in the same instrument.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Acoustic Shoppe is an Authorized Taylor Premier Dealer and Gold Label Advantage Dealer. Every instrument ships after a full \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/inspection\"\u003e23-point professional inspection\u003c\/a\u003e by our in-house repair tech. 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That's a deliberate choice, not an older or lesser one — Taylor brought this bracing family back specifically to recreate the traditional dreadnought voice players associate with vintage flat-tops, paired here with a solid Sitka spruce top over solid Indian rosewood back and sides.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpen X Bracing behaves differently than V-Class: instead of extending sustain and chasing pinpoint note separation, it lets the top and back move more freely, producing a warmer, more complex overtone spread with a softer attack — the traditional dreadnought character flatpickers and bluegrass rhythm players have chased for decades. Indian rosewood underneath adds a deep low end and shimmering overtones on top of that foundation, and the gloss-finished Legacy Standard Carve neck — a rounder, fuller profile than Taylor's modern Standard Carve — fills the hand in a way that rewards a firmer strumming attack rather than a light touch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVintage details carry through the whole instrument: a three-ring green abalone rosette, mother-of-pearl large diamond fingerboard inlays, a tortoise pickguard, and black side dots in place of Taylor's usual silver — a small detail, but one that sets the Legacy line apart at a glance. L.R. Baggs Element VTC electronics keep the amplified tone close to what you hear acoustically, and the guitar ships in a Taylor Deluxe hardshell case. 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