Best value electro acoustics?

[Sir Axeman]

That Paul Brett parlour guitar looks and sounds nice, but watching his demo of that guitar has had me looking at quite a few of his other videos! Love his voice as much as his playing! Defo one for me to watch out for in future - saw his pics on vintage stuff before but didn't know who he was but now i've heard him..what a great talent! I think my next guitar purchase has now changed to an electro classical...and current fave is the Yamaha NCX900. I've already played one and it was lovely, the NTX was easier to play with its more standard nut/neck width vs the wider classical neck width...but its tone acoustically wasn't anything great...even though i know it sounds great plugged in. The NCX900 sounds really nice both ways so my mind is 95% made up now that thats going to be my next buy in the next couple of weeks.

[Koss59]

I'm not sure how much they cost but one of my students has just got one of the new PRS SE acoustics, I was very impressed by it if it's under 700 quid.

[Tone71]

Taylor 110/114 CE (114 just over budget) lots of electric players like these.

Lots to look at and pick from with that budget

[thomasw88]

My favourites in the hopefully less than £700 price bracket are Simon & Patrick or Seagull. Both are made by Godin but have slightly different design philosophies. I can't really comment on their plugged in tone, but I like their acoustic tone. They do several smaller body models, and even a mini jumbo which was pretty easy to handle IIRC, but I play a normal jumbo so am already used to big guitars. Other brands worth a look are Faith, and Guild GAD.

I recently gassed on a S&P Mini Jumbo. Put a LR baggs M1A pickup in it and its superb. Tried a load of guitars including lots of tanglewoods (I like tanglewoods alot).. but this one just felt comfortable and had a very warm sound. Also smelt nice!! guitar was £600 and the pickups are around £100 2nd hand. But its great - very happy.