On Tue, 2013-04-02 at 16:35 +0200, Florian Paul Schmidt wrote:
  I was honestly surprised to find the sweet spot for
classical guitars
 to be so high in price. I expected machining to have gotten so much
 better in the last decades that factory built low-medium end classical
 guitars would hold up sound wise to hand built classicals. 
I guess warehousing the aged wood is very expensive and perhaps more
people buy electric guitars, then classical guitars. A solid body guitar
maybe doesn't need that aged wood?