I've only played one Norman and it was a nice playing guitar. That's a Godin line and I'm now carrying the Art & Lutherie and LaPatrie products. What an awesome guitar company; truly some killer bang for the buck guitars.
I wouldn't be so anxious to drop your Norman unless you're looking for something different. I have 3 acoustic guitars now but had 4 very recently. Each served a specific purpose. I can easily equate guitars like saws. A table saw makes some cuts much easier than a radial arm saw. For some boards a sabre or jig saw is the best kind of saw. Certainly in doing demolition a reciprocating or 'Saws-all' saw is the weapon of choice. If we can see how it makes sense that saws are designed to perform different tasks making some better at some things and others better at other things then it's easier to apply the same logic to guitars. A solid spruce top w/a rosewood body dreadnought is not going to sound the same as a cedar topped folk guitar with a mahogany body. So, what do you want to do differently in playing that your Norman doesn't really let you do?
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