What shape guitar is best for you?
Personal preference and comfort are two crucial factors that make trying before you buy essential. But the characteristics related to certain acoustic shapes do make them better for some players than others. A dreadnought is a good all-rounder; it's the classic acoustic shape that's suitable for flat-picking or strumming.
Ditto the grand auditorium, with its wider lower body bout a Martin signature model of this shape was famously used on Eric Clapton's Unplugged performance and many other brands' examples sport a cutaway.
One important thing to notice is that, the bigger-bodied super jumbo is better for strummers who want a big, booming rhythm sound, whereas the smaller-bodied parlor shape has been favored by traditional blues and folk players who want midrange punch for fingerpicking styles.
Is it worth paying the extra for a guitar with a solid back and sides?
Usually, but it doesn't cost a lot extra. Guitars with solid backs and sides take some time to mature but often end up having a warmer, more resonant sound than the laminated variety.
One of the greatest things about an acoustic guitar is that you don't need speaker to make it sounds good and loud (if you have a very good sounding acoustic guitar, of course). Just strum it once and stop and listen to the fatness and the sustain of acoustic sound, it should last nicely with nice reverb without making very thin sound. If you have no idea how, go try the most expensive acoustic guitars you can find locally and get used to its sound. Try to remember them both the sound and the feeling.
Good news is, nowadays, you don't need to robe a bank to have a good sounding acoustic guitar. Most of guitar manufacturers have learn from all these years how to make an acoustic guitar sound expensive with affordable prices, including the Chinese's.
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