Yamaha Storia I

Yamaha Storia III
This guitar is exceptional and at the top of the quality scale. I have already owned and played a variety of guitars. By chance I was able to test it at someone's home and I was surprised by the coherence of all the important parameters.
It is barely bigger than a normal standard 4/4 classical guitar, but has steel strings. The neck is only 44mm wide at the nut, which makes it easy to grip, the string action is perfect and the high gloss finish does not affect the grip on the neck. The workmanship is "top", no edges, no frets that still have sharp burrs. The machine heads work fine enough and are tuning stable. The perfectly balanced scale length is especially noteworthy. I have never had an instrument where this tuned right away without correction, even on guitars that cost twice as much.
The sound is very tight on this model. You get the feeling of playing through a compressor. The sustain is brilliant and the factory strung strings offer a warm sound. Unnoticed hides the piezo bridge pickup, which reproduces a neutral sound impression. Desirable at this point, would be an active preamp with tone control.
It does not often happen that so much good sound is offered at an optimal price/performance ratio.
A clear buy recommendation not only for beginners!

By the way, I have ordered after testing my own...