They both have become my main guitars. I really like the benedetto in a band situation and when it is noisy. It pretty much is the guitar I like to travel with. The JB is much more of a solo guitar for me. It can do the band thing as well, but I just like the acoustic qualities of it. Now having said that, the bambino sounds great mic'd up as well, it just isn't as loud as the JB. The sadowsky JB is the exact same specs, body-wise as a Ibanez George Benson, just with a humbucker. So you could get an Ibanez and put in a neck humbucker and that would get pretty close. Sadowsky in's't making the JB any longer but, to me they are the perfect 175.