“40 years on, PRS is still setting standards that other brands would do well to study very closely”: PRS S2 Standard 24 Satin and S2 Vela Satin review

PRS S2 Standard 24 Satin.

For its first 16 years of production-guitar making, PRS only made its instruments in the USA. When the company finally began to offer the ‘offshore’ Korean-made SE models – now made in Indonesia – it gave the brand a new, much lower price point but also created a large hole, price wise, in between. 

From its launch in 2013, the USA S2 line aimed to fill that gap: the essence of PRS, still built alongside the all-singing, all-dancing Core level in Maryland.