Can you tell the difference between a $200 and a $200,000 guitar?

it is simple: anybody saying that wood choice make no difference between instruments  contradict  thousand of years  of history of craftmanship and reveal he had no clue about what is the "timbre" concept in acoustic and his role in music ..😊

Sound is universal human perception affecting us on parts or locations of our emotional and physical body consistent through all cultures...

This is a demonstrated recent acoustics science fact...

What rules acoustics is "timbre" perception as a concrete physical set of invariants reflecting the vibrating sound sources qualities , not abstract Pythagoreans mathemahical ratios... Sound is not an abstract vibrating waves in the air... It comes from a vibrating sound sources endowed with specific qualities we can be trained to perceive.... The most simple one : tap a fruit and you will learn if it is ripe and ready or not ...

Then sound quality is not "subjective " as in delusional... It is "subjective" as in objectively statistically observed physical sound source vibrating invariant qualities perceived by all cultures in the same way ...

A musician well trained will distinguish in a relative objective way the differences between different guitar design quality...😊