When it comes to acoustic guitars, you're not likely to find one quite like the Martin D-45. This dreadnought, an absolute masterclass in acoustic guitar design, construction, and sound, enters a room and is sure to bring all conversation to a halt. This particular model, entering Martin's refreshed 2025 Standard Series, raises the bar for the D-45 and similar dreadnoughts universally. As a bold take on a Martin classic, the Martin Standard Series D-45 is anything but standard.

There is definite history imbued in Martin's Standard Series D-45. One of Martin's longest-standing models, today's Standard Series D-45 delivers on generations of Martin excellence with many modern considerations for current players. This all begins with the D-45's historic dreadnought body. The body, coming together with East Indian rosewood back and sides and a spruce top, makes for a splendidly familiar tonal profile to start from. GE ("Golden Era") scalloped spruce braces align in a forward-shifted X-Brace pattern on the D-45's spruce top to enhance balance, concision, and projection for an overall radiant tonal profile. In all ways, this Martin's body plays with grace and authority sure to resonate with any acoustic guitar fan.

A genuine mahogany neck joins with the D-45's body in a GE Modified Low Oval profile with a High Performance neck taper. Enabling smooth playability in the palm up and down its length, this neck is effortlessly mobile and primed for long playing sessions. This Martin's neck joins its body through dovetail neck joint construction for excellent transfer of motion throughout while a gloss neck finish makes for a dazzling visual and tangible experience.

Along with the neck, an ebony fingerboard lands on this D-45 bearing twenty frets. Abalone Style 45 Hexagon inlays line the dark ebony for a captivating visual element sure to turn a few heads. This guitar's ebony fingerboard contributes liveliness and playability to the model. In short, the Martin D-45 Standard Series is a guitar that must be played to be believed – and then played more, and maybe a little more after that.

Onboard this Standard Series, Martin took the liberty of outfitting just about every facet with style and substance. For one, the gloss-finished dreadnought body is inlaid with Multi-Stripe abalone on its top alongside Antique White binding. The top is similarly treated with Martin's Aging Toner color for that ever-so lived-in look up close or from a distance. A Multi-Stripe abalone rosette rounds the soundhole, completing out the top's regal presentation.

These additions continue on to consider the guitar's playability. A bone nut appears at the model's headstock along with gold open gear tuning machines for stability at the strings' ends while an ebony GE Modern Belly bridge and compensated bone saddle match at the scale's opposite end. If traveling to the stage or studio, this Standard Series D-45 comes equipped with L.R. Baggs Anthem electronics for translating its sweet acoustic sounds from acoustic to amplified scenarios. However you choose to play this D-45, it gives back in loving ways. This whole experience travels with an included Martin hardshell case to shield the guitar for years to come.

In Martin's refreshed Standard Series, the D-45 lives on in simply triumphant ways. A certified dream inside and out, Martin pens yet another chapter of the D-45's impressive legacy for the players of today.

• Martin Standard Series dreadnought model
• Gloss-finished spruce top with Aging Toner color
• Gloss-finished East Indian rosewood back and sides
• Gloss-finished genuine mahogany neck
• Golden Era "GE" Modified Low Oval neck profile with High Performance Taper
• Ebony fingerboard with twenty frets
• Abalone Style 45 Hexagon fret inlays
• Gold open gear tuning machines and bone nut
• Ebony Golden Era Modern Belly bridge with drop-in compensated bone saddle
• Antique White body binding and abalone top inlay and rosette
• L.R. Baggs Anthem electronics system
• Martin hardshell case included