Need to upgrade my original acoustic guitar. Need good advice!

Thatā€™s strange! Lighter strings, lowered the action, still hard!

  1. Maybe the action is still not low enough (Did you measure?)
    or
  2. Maybe you just did something to the bridge, so the action is lower over all, but not at the first fret? So you could file the nut slots down.

Even with a new guitar, the setup has to be good to make it play easier than yours.
Thereā€™s just those factors for having to press hard or not:
String gauge vs. scale length, and then height of the strings over the fretboard.

Ok, please forgive me for dwelling on setting up your old guitar first! :slight_smile: