new guitar

[paige]

well last week I got a new ibby s520. I normally don't post about new gear but I'm having moral delimma. Ya see I have 2 jackson dk2m's, spike's old trans blue one a a black one. Anyway I've been comparing them for the last 2 hours and, the jackson's sound better, but the s feels and plays easier. I don't find myself struggling on harder things and it justs feels like a pair of old pants. The dk's feel like they are fighting against me, and I don't know why. Its to the point where I'm thinking about trading them both for a prestige.
I'm wondering if anybody has had this situation, not jackson vs. ibanez, but just guitars that you really want to like and not feeling compatible with them, and why, because I can't explain it.

[Rich#6]

Is the action set too high on the Jacksons? I get that feeling when the action is too high. Same guage strings?
The few times I have owned an Ibanez I start to think that I like the necks better becuase of how thin they are. Then there is a point that my hand cramps and that feeling goes away( that the Ibanez is better).

[elysianfield]

i have recently had the same delimma with my guitars. And i've sussed it's down to the neck profile and the fret size. I always play my PRS a million times better than i do my dean vmnt and jackson dk2t.

Prs is wide/thin
dean is mustaine's D-shape
jackson is compound radius

I've just sold the Dean, the Jackson will go next, and if i want another guitar again, i'll save up for another USA PRS

[DonP]

I've had guitars from a single manufacturer where one plays easy and one is stiff. It's all in the setup. And make sure you are using the same gauge of strings.

[paige]

same gauge strings, sametuning, action is as good as it gets on all three, and the necks thickness isn't even all that much different. The biggest difference is 22 frets compared to 24, but I don't think that would matter would it?

[Rich#6]

no same scale.

[paige]

Thats what I thought, but figured I would ask just in case.