These Grand Concert models feature a slightly shorter scale length, increased body depth and an accommodating frame, adding up to a supremely comfortable, intimate feel to match their articulate, warm sound.
Exclusive to the Gold Label Collection, these Dreadnoughts boast increased body depth for a deeper resonant frequency, enhanced low-end expansiveness, and greater room-filling power—all while retaining exceptional balance and signature Taylor clarity.
Our deeper-bodied Grand Pacific shape serves up powerful acoustic projection, rich low-end warmth and old-school dreadnought character. Models across our 500, 700 and 800 Series deliver three distinctive flavors of Gold Label sound thanks to a trio of enticing tonewood pairings.
Sunburst w/ Cream Pickguard
Sunburst w/ Firestripe Pickguard
Sunburst w/ Cream Pickguard
Sunburst w/ Firestripe Pickguard
Adapted from our versatile Grand Auditorium, the Super Auditorium is slightly longer and wider, channeling more low-end power and an open, round response. Choose from mahogany, Indian rosewood, Honduran rosewood or figured Hawaiian koa, all paired with torrefied Sitka spruce tops.
Sunburst w/ Cream Pickguard
Sunburst w/ Firestripe Pickguard
Sunburst w/ Cream Pickguard
Sunburst w/ Firestripe Pickguard
Our Builder's Edition guitars represent our commitment to an exceptional playing experience through unmatched playability and a refined take on Taylor’s signature sound compared to the vintage-inspired voice of the Gold Label Collection. Explore the Builder's Edition lineup and discover another facet of Taylor’s player-first sensibility.
Like the Gold Label Collection, our Legacy guitars hearken back to older sounds and designs, celebrating Bob Taylor’s earliest builds and lasting innovations like the Grand Auditorium body shape. Browse our Legacy Collection to see how the Taylor philosophy has evolved since our founding more than 50 years ago.
The Gold Label Collection was created with a unique design philosophy aimed at offering players an entirely different sound than the one they’ve come to expect from Taylor. The Gold Label voice is inspired by classic acoustic sounds and emphasizes warmth, depth and old-soul character. That sound is the result of three primary design elements:
Broadly, the term “bracing” refers to a critical part of an acoustic guitar’s internal voicing architecture: an arrangement of wooden struts that add strength and stability to the guitar’s body. Bracing creates a balance between flexibility and rigidity that allows the woods to vibrate and move air (and create sound) while minimizing unpleasant or less useful frequencies.
The fanned V-Class bracing architecture inside Taylor Gold Label acoustic guitars is a major component of their vintage-inspired sound. Specifically, it’s a new take on the V-shaped bracing arrangement developed by Taylor design chief Andy Powers that utilizes fanned placement of braces on the lower bout of the soundboard (top). This arrangement adds more low-end presence, midrange richness and warmth to the guitar’s voice.
Similar to the original V-Class design, fanned V-Class bracing features a V-shaped arrangement of braces that helps promote rigidity along the center line (parallel to the strings) and flexibility on either side of the top. This creates an orderly, balanced vibration that translates into improved volume, sustain and pitch accuracy across the frequency spectrum.
Where fanned V-Class differs is in the precise arrangement of those braces. Instead of just the two primary V-shaped braces, fanned V-Class bracing features an additional set of smaller braces placed in a fan pattern across the guitar’s lower bout. This design preserves all the key benefits of the original V-Class architecture while yielding greater depth, warmth and midrange richness—all essential ingredients in the Gold Label sound.
Currently, we’re producing Gold Label acoustic guitars in these body shapes:
As the only body shape that’s currently fully exclusive to the Gold Label Collection, the Super Auditorium represents a new take on guitar design that helped fuel the vintage inspiration of the entire collection.
The Super Auditorium is a fresh take on Taylor’s signature Grand Auditorium design. Crafted to emphasize warmth and depth, its dimensions and interior structure are ideal for channeling the old-school flavor of the Gold Label Collection. It was introduced in 2025 in the Gold Label 814e and Gold Label K14e.
Sonically, the Super Auditorium yields remarkable low-end presence balanced against woody, round treble notes, adding up to a full-bodied voice at every point in the tonal spectrum. Strum a Super Auditorium guitar and you’ll hear exceptional power when you dig in, and its broad, responsive dynamic range lets you play softly and hear the same warmth and clarity as you would with a stronger attack. The fanned V-Class bracing inside the Super Auditorium body dials up its musical character with impressive sustain, allowing players and audiences to hear the way notes and chords bloom as they ring out.
The similarity in names between these two acoustic guitar body shapes is no accident—the Super Auditorium is based on the profile of Taylor’s popular Grand Auditorium shape, and it will feel familiar to players who have used Grand Auditorium guitars. Likewise, the Super Auditorium serves up a blend of versatility, balance and clarity that will make Grand Auditorium players feel right at home.
The Super Auditorium boasts a slightly longer body and greater width at the lower bout (the curve of the body closest to the end pin). Crucially for the Gold Label aesthetic and sound, the Super Auditorium does not feature a cutaway, while Grand Auditorium guitars do include a cutaway.
The Action Control Neck is a patented neck design created by Taylor Guitars that includes two key features:
The original Taylor Neck design (sometimes referred to as the NT Neck) features a bolt-on neck joint and is known for its ease of adjustability compared to necks that have been glued to the guitar’s body. Because the Taylor Neck is attached to the body with two bolts, it can be easily removed, allowing a technician to insert or swap precision shims in order to change the neck angle. The Taylor Neck is also known for a slender, hand-friendly profile that accommodates all types of players and styles, making for easy, relaxed fretting and reduced hand fatigue.
The Action Control Neck preserves those benefits to playability and adjustability while making it even easier to adjust the way a guitar plays. With the Action Control Neck, no shims are needed to adjust the string height, nor does the neck need to be removed; a player or technician can change the guitar’s action by turning the additional bolt in the neck block with a quarter-inch nut driver or standard truss rod wrench.=
The Action Control Neck features the same slender profile as the original Taylor Neck, so it will feel familiar to musicians who have played Taylor guitars built prior to 2025.
The Action Control Neck is currently included in Next Generation acoustic guitars as well as Gold Label acoustic guitars. Both Next Generation and Gold Label models benefit from the increased warmth and resonance of the Action Control Neck.
As of mid-2026, Legacy guitars do not include the Action Control Neck, nor do standard-line guitars without “Next Generation” in their model name. Over time, more guitars from the standard Taylor line will shift to the Next Generation platform and will include the Action Control Neck, scalloped V-Class bracing and Claria electronics.
LR Baggs Element VTC acoustic electronics consist of an undersaddle piezo pickup that derives its output chiefly from the movement of the guitar’s top, setting it apart from acoustic pickups that are driven largely by string pressure and vibration to generate current and tone from the piezo crystals inside the sensor.
That design balances sonic detail—the nuances and hidden harmonics contained in an acoustic guitar’s voice—with a unique frequency blend that reduces the emphasis on the treble range. The result is a warmer, rootsier sound than players familiar with the quirks of acoustic electronics might expect, making the LR Baggs system the ideal choice for the heritage-inspired sound of our Gold Label guitars.
Unlike the LR Baggs Element VTC pickup, the ES2 features a behind-the-saddle design with three individually calibrated sensors that are paired with a pro-grade preamp. The orientation of the piezo sensors behind the saddle has a similar effect to the ultra-thin design of the LR Baggs design in that it yields a more balanced voice with less of the brash treble edge players associate with acoustic pickups—however, the ES2 typically produces a bit more sonic detail than the Element VTC due to its focus on faithful reproduction of the guitar’s full frequency range.
The LR Baggs Element VTC features controls mounted inside the upper edge of the soundhole, while the ES2’s control knobs are situated on the side of the guitar just above the neck joint. The ES2 also includes three controls (volume, bass and treble) compared to the Element’s two (volume and tone).
The Claria System more recently created by Taylor’s engineers reimagines the traditional acoustic pickup construction with a braided piezo transducer placed directly under the saddle. The Claria piezo was designed specifically for damping qualities that reduce harsh frequencies and yield a more natural, organic voice. The Claria pickup was crafted first and foremost for intuitiveness and ease of use, making it easy to plug in and produce clean, usable sound in live settings with minimal adjustment or EQing at the mixer.
Like the LR Baggs Element VTC pickup, the Claria System features controls mounted inside the soundhole. However, the Claria System includes three controls: volume, mid-contour and tone, with the mid-contour control—a proprietary Taylor innovation—as a unique tone-shaping differentiator.
No. Only models with the “Gold Label” designation in the model name include the specific combination of fanned V-Class bracing, deeper body shapes, the Action Control Neck and LR Baggs electronics.
Our Gold Label acoustic guitars were crafted specifically to produce a warm, old-soul voice with a greater emphasis on low-end frequencies and vintage-inspired warmth. It’s a dramatically different sound from the one players have come to expect from Taylor, and is the combined result of new body designs, fanned V-Class bracing and the Action Control Neck. Models with that combination of features are confined specifically to our Gold Label Collection and will always feature the “Gold Label” designation in the model name.
Taylor’s Next Generation guitars represent the latest evolution in Taylor’s innovative approach to guitar building. While the Next Generation sound will vary between models with different body shapes and tonewood pairings, players can expect the sound of Next Generation guitars to more closely resemble the contemporary balance and clarity for which Taylor guitars have always been known. Even so, Next Generation guitars have been revoiced with scalloped V-Class bracing that adds more emphasis in the bass range along with enhanced open-string richness, resulting in a slightly warmer voice.
Currently, Next Generation guitars include the “Next Generation” modifier in the model name. However, over time, the Next Generation feature set will spread throughout the Taylor standard line, and that designation will disappear as those design elements become standard.
Here’s an easy rundown of the differences between Gold Label guitars and Next Generation guitars:
Builder’s Edition guitars are crafted with a similar focus on innovation as our Next Generation guitars, and many Builder’s Edition models include Next Generation features. The Builder’s Edition voice tends to resemble the modern balance and clarity of our Next Generation guitars.
By contrast, Gold Label acoustic guitars produce a warmer, more vintage-hued voice reminiscent of old-school acoustic sounds.
Builder’s Edition guitars also feature comfort-focused elements that are not found in the more traditionally inspired Gold Label Collection, such as beveled armrests and cutaways and chamfered body edges.
Gold Label guitars and Next Generation Builder’s Edition guitars both feature the Action Control Neck.
While the names “Gold Label” and “Legacy” may seem to reflect similar philosophies and vintage-inspired designs, they are actually distinct collections with very different features and sounds.
The Gold Label Collection is indeed inspired by old-school acoustic sounds (predating Taylor) and produces a warm, heritage-flavored voice, but Gold Label guitars achieve that sound through innovative design elements that build on decades of forward-thinking luthiery. Those features include fanned V-Class bracing, the Action Control Neck and modified body designs.
By contrast, Legacy Collection guitars are crafted specifically to revisit some of Taylor’s earliest builds, as well as the original innovations that would form the foundation of our design philosophy for decades to come. For example, Legacy Collection guitars feature traditional X-bracing, and some are built with body shapes that may by considered “traditional,” such as the classic Dreadnought and the Jumbo. Legacy guitars also include the original Taylor Neck instead of the Action Control Neck featured in Gold Label guitars.
Finally, Legacy Collection guitars sport a sleek, understated visual appointment style that channels the approach Bob Taylor favored in his early days of designing and building instruments.
We periodically add new guitars to the Gold Label Collection, but currently, some of the most popular Gold Label models include the:
