Great review! I have an infatuation with Parker guitars. You can really change their personality with different strings. I found some copper strings that seem to be made for this maple/cedar combination. I use the 12's; they absolutely make this guitar sing. I also have the P6, P7, P9. & P28. They're all the same shape, but made of different tonewoods. I like to play around with string combinations, so it was interesting to hear the differences between models using the same strings. Having two outputs is handy, too. I like to run a clean signal with the balanced output directly to the soundboard, and the line out to a processor for looping & reverb.