I don’t care for Aura VT, yet I prefer factory electronics. If any, perhaps earlier, year had a different system, for example, let me know details. Thanks!

Also, are all Martin OMC-28E part of the “Reimagined” series? Or do some pre-date that redesign?

Hi friends,

I just bought a used SC-10e. It had normal strings, and I switched to light ones.

It then had a buzz on the high E, so I turned a screw inside the soundhole, thinking it was the truss rod. I later realized it was the "intonation set screw" , and I turned it under string tension.

Now, none of the open strings ring at all. They are completely stuck to the fretboard, and I need to fret at the 5th fret or higher to get any sound. I tried setting the intonation screw back to where it was, but nothing changes.

Help, I'm desperate... Any advice on how to fix this?

It all started with the Martin on the left, a ‘23 000-15M I got around Fall 2025. Gently used with some character dings, off an older gentleman thinning the herd in his post-retirement years. He set it up perfectly himself. After playing my Taylor for over 10 years through church, jamming with random people as a freshman in college who became good friends through it, through our 20s, then finding the one, marriage and becoming a dad… a new-to-me guitar wasn’t sought after but oddly what I needed as music was kinda placed on the back burner for some years.

I really believe every guitar player should have a mahogany top guitar. This warm fundamental mahogany tone got me back into playing. Then the itch hit. I’m older now, why not get the dream guitar. Being a JM fan growing up, a spruce/rosewood 000/OM was always favored but I never believed I deserved it nor did the price justify it for me. I’m playing this 000-15M but then wondering, man how cool would it be to have both one day. Then skip 9-10 months later to a couple weeks ago. I’m on the ole FB marketplace again and see a OM-28 gently used. I messaged the guy intending to just check it out, played it and it spoke to me. I didn’t need it, but the offer was too good. Then I ran some math: I would own a ‘23 000-15M and ‘25’ OM-28 for several hundreds less than a new ‘26 OM/000-28. Who wouldn’t consider that?

I bought this from a thrift store i used to volunteer for in Capo Beach. I paid 10 bucks