This next generation builders edition 814ce blacktop updates taylors flagship grand auditorium with new refinements that enhance both sound and musical versatility. Built with solid indian rosewood back and sides paired with an adirondack spruce top it produces a richly complex voice with blooming overtones warm lows and clear articulate trebles. The grand auditorium body shape keeps the response balanced and adaptable making this instrument equally effective for fingerstyle detail dynamic strumming and expressive accompaniment. A scalloped variant of taylors v class bracing increases volume sustain and tonal depth while improving pitch accuracy across the fretboard. Player focused comfort features such as chamfered body edges a bevelled armrest and matching bevelled cutaway create a seamless playing feel throughout the instrument. With claria electronics for intuitive plug and play amplified tone and a deluxe taylor hardshell case included this builders edition 814ce blacktop delivers a refined professional electro acoustic experience.