“Exceptional sound and feel, at an entry-level price”: Kepma disrupts the budget acoustic game with torrefied solid-topped models starting at $249

Closeup of hands playing a Kepma Fenix Series acoustic guitar.

NAMM 2025: Nashville-based Kepma Guitars has unveiled its Fenix series of Grand Auditorium acoustic guitars, which bring torrefied Sitka spruce tops to a budget- and beginner-friendly price point.

Those tops feature on all four of the series' models; two varieties that both come in two different finishes – Natural and Sunburst.