Larry Carlton S7 AWH 2nd Gen

Im a guitarist for almost 40 years. I've played and owned many strats over the years from '62 vintage strat, to single humbucker early 80s japan strats to all sorts of partscasters with various arrangements of bodies and necks and pickups so been playing strats quite a while. I have been building my own guitars for a few years now and my main two guitars are self built instruments with the finest woods, pickups and hardware you could choose. I recently purchased a Sire marcus miller v5 gen 2 bass as I wanted to play around on some home recording ideas and was extremely impressed with the quality, feel and tone of the instrument. This lead me to purchasing the gen 2 S7 and wow is this an impressive instrument. It has its own character for sure and plays effortlessly straight out the box. I did do a set up of the guitar to suit my own taste but all I can say is I really don't know how Sire manage to produce such high quality instruments at this price point. I also recently purchased a mn player series strat and got rid of it after a week. This Sire is a keeper. Absolutely lovely tone and great fretboard . Soild instrument. In my opinion it is equal in quality to the US Fender strats or perhaps even exceeds them. If i paid 1500 for it id be happy with it. Will be picking up a H7 next to try it .