Every acoustic I’ve ever played, the open G string is dull and lifeless including new strings, why?
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I don’t find that, but do you normally play electric? The G string on an acoustic is wound (mine are anyway). The G on an electric is plain. Perhaps that’s what you’re hearing?
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No, acoustic
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I’ve thought this for a long time, to the point where I always used to find myself incapable of not listening out for it 
in my recent experience tho I’ve found it’s only really noticeable if the guitar has a problem (g string not fitting in the nut correctly, poor break angle between saddle & bridge or not seated correctly in the bridge pin holes).
Fixing these problems does help but still only up to a certain point, it becomes a lot less noticeable and I’ve just tried to put it out my mind now tho 
it’s always the first string to ‘die’ in the set too. Definitely the most problematic string 
I have to agree. I always have a lot of problems with my G-strings…
Cheers,
Keith
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My G is great. Like the other ones. Try a different guitar? Or different strings.
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