Re the aspiration to buy a slope-shouldered Epi acoustic which sort of kicked off this forum, I have one of those and it's a way better guitar than I'm a player. I've got the Epiphone Elite J45, which along with the other models in the Elite/Elitist range seems to have bombed as a marketing idea (a top-of-the-line Epi for nearly the price of a Gibson? What were they thinking of!) but they are consequently discounted and great value.
Nothing flash about my Epiphone, but a very rewarding guitar to play. I can never blame the tool. Fitted with an LR Baggs iBeam thingie which goes Ok too through an acoustic amp. But the guitar has lots of volume anyway.