Harley Benton Custom Line King-CE NT

I play for 40 years, have 12 various guitars and play semi pro.
I have 4 acoustic guitars, from classic, dreadnought, grand auditorium and now also jumbo.

I really bought this guitar just for fun, because it's price is very nice and I read and saw some excelent reviews. I allways liked SJ-200 natural, but never found enough reason to actually buy it, as it is pretty expensive and my desire was never that strong.

With this one, one just can not go wrong. You get plenty of guitar for the money, excellent built, setup, solid electronics.

From the moment of unwrapping this guitar looks like it is triple or four times the price. It is very nice to play, excellent setup with Daddario EXP16 0,12 gauge.
neck is setup perfectly, action great and suitable for this kind of acoustic guitar.
And here we come to the next - what is this guitar meant for.
This is strumming type of guitar with rich and deep sound. Very neutral without any special character (martin, taylor, gibson sound...) resembling more to Ibanez or PRS neutral sound.
Since I have it only two days, this can be partly because acoustics get their character after some time of playing and when the wood properly matures.
This guitar has some raw spruce scent that makes me think, that wood could be a bit forced, so I will wait some time and be carefull, that I don't dry it out.
I expect, that harmonics will develop through time and use, right now it's more strings that give character to the sound.
So, when comparing this guitar to my grand auditorium Tanglewood TW170ASCE, Tanglewood sounds more mature, less deep bass but splendid mids and highs for fingerpicking, less for strumming.
Jumbo King CENT is quite opposite - mellow at fingerpicking, but great at open and full chords strumming.
But that is basically, what was expected from shape and wood and why I did buy this guitar.
I didn't expect much and I was pleasantly surprised and I still don't expect much, mut i see that this guitar has some potential to be more than just solid instrument.
But time will tell.
Anyway, great use of money and totaly worth it. Everybody that saw it, immediately guessed the price range of around 1000? or even more.

Edited after few months:
sound: developed more to typical Gibson SJ200 sound, sounds great when recorded.
as to mellow sound - it's not that, it is just that increased lower tones give different sound to high strings.
when played hard, this guitar roars!
action: set up high for strumming which it does excelently. If one wants to lower action, the whole mustache bridge has to be lowered. If you lower the action, some of the roar when strummed hard goes away.
Guitar tunes excelent and keeps tunning astonishingly.
Anyway, this guitar is not so much for gentle fingerpicking (jumbo's never meant to be anyway...) or it looses much of character.

Changed strings to D'addario EXP 12-56. It works great.

Before telling about the guitar I must admit, that I used to play only electric guitars before, but I always wanted an acoustic Jumbo guitar. So I thought this might be a good choice for me (and it really is).

The guitar looks and sounds amazing. Although, the neck bindings are not very accurate and has some issues. However, they are really visible only if you pay attention to it and they are not affecting playability and sound. The latter is, so to say, is great.

The equipment is great as well. Seriously, Fishman pickup and Grover machine heads for this price. They both work perfectly and It's already almost half of the cost of the guitar.

One thing that need to be mentioned is the size of the frets. They are really very very small (they are both low and slim). After electric guitar these frets are really hard to use, because they require much more pressure. There were no info about it in other reviews, so the fret size was a bit unpleasant surprise for me. However, I guess, it just requires some time to get used to it.

In overall, I can surely recommend this great guitar to anybody who wants and needs good quality instrument with great sound. This is definitely best choice for the money.

This is a beautifully built guitar with an awesome sound. Comfortable to play, easy to adjust, pleasing to look at. I've gigged this guitar so far 4 times or so, and it is definitely satisfactory. I usually change the strings right away with new guitars and basses, but the strings on this one gave me no trouble at all, so I didn't bother to change them. One complaint: I wish it had a little more bass.

Pro:
Price
Sound
Construction
Design
Two strap hooks

Cons:
Needs a little more bass to suit my personal taste
Needs better fret job

This big bodied beauty is fantastic. Great rich sound, with a lot of bass in there (which I like but others may not) and good volume from the jumbo body. This is currently my only acoustic apart from a classical guitar, as I have sold on all the other lower end models I have had due to dissatisfaction with sound or playability. This one is a keeper.

The finish is generally lovely but some of the faux mother of pearl stuff on the bridge is a little dodgy, but its just artefact anyway, for the money you cannot expect better. The finish on the headstock however is absolutely perfect and very stylish, many people have mistaken this for an extremely up market guitar when I have played it for them.

Plugged into a PA with a small bit of reverb it sounds fantastic and the built in tuner is a welcome addition.