{"title":"Taylor 400 Series","description":"\u003cp\u003eSitka spruce over Indian rosewood built Taylor's reputation as a steel-string powerhouse long before V-Class bracing existed — the pairing behind decades of recorded acoustic tone, prized for a low end that blooms without turning boomy and a top end that stays clear instead of brittle under a hard strum. The 400 Series carries that classic combination into Taylor's V-Class tier, where the patented internal bracing trades a traditional X-brace's competing vibration patterns for two angled beams meeting near the tail block: longer sustain, more volume without added string tension, and intonation that holds up even fretted hard past the twelfth fret.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo 414ce models make up the line at launch, and the $400 gap between them reflects a genuinely different build, not a repackaged year-over-year update. The 414ce Studio runs Taylor's original V-Class bracing with the Expression System 2 pickup, finished in Shaded Edgeburst, at $2,299. The 414ce Next Generation steps up to Scalloped V-Class with a Relief Rout and Taylor's newer Claria pickup system, finished in Natural, at $2,699.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0883\/3348\/4349\/collections\/Taylor-414ce-1208275084-_282026_20Spec_29-FrontLeft-2025_png.webp?v=1784733655","url":"https:\/\/theacousticshoppe.com\/collections\/taylor-400-series.oembed","provider":"The Acoustic Shoppe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}