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Experience In Sound

As our many interviews over our past 500 issues will confirm, a conversation with Paul Reed Smith is never straightforward. In early May of this year, Paul sounds upbeat: “There’s a lot going on here… and in general it’s all good!” he wise-cracks, before turning the table and asking us what we think of the new PRS Core Modern Eagle V. “Not bad? Is that all we get?”

Getting our interview back on track, we remind Paul that he showed this writer the MEV prototype back in early 2019…

What took so long for the Modern Eagle V to become a Core model?

“Covid, our back

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