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After listening to the sound clips the Cholet seems like a no brainer. I can’t imagine that you wouldn’t be thrilled with it. I didn’t find it overly wet in the sound clip, either, so it seems like it will be just right.
I would go Cyril Morin instead of Altamira. If you want to save a little money, I would do Morin instead of Cholet instead. For the price, they are amazing guitars. I'm played 5 so far and all have been great.
Let me chip in Risto Ivanovski. I've been working with him to make a 660mm small ish d hole. Everything literally customizable. All that for the criminally low price of 1500 euros which he might increase soon.
He's in North Macedonia, contacted him about a model and he said 1800 + shipping, but then I have to multiply by 1,24 for VAT etc, so then it'd be around 2300, so then I might as well get the Cholet for 2800
I agree with Gian, the 2 Cyril Morin guitars I played were great, lively, and easy to play. A bandmate has one and his playing increased exponentially after he ditched a Mateo for a Morin. But the Cholet sounds great if you want to spend more. You'll never know what guitar is best for you until you have it in your hands and play it for a while. All of this discussion is just speculation until you play it for yourself.
Here's a used one in France for less:
https://reverb.com/item/82334112-cyril-morin-manouche-2019
hH Huh interesting, he also has a lightly used Favino copy for 1400 last I asked. You could ask him about that if you are interested in a bigger guitar.
Other stuff that comes to mind. If you could stretch your budget a little, the Barault Studio is pretty much well loved by anyone. More affordable, you got the Mateos, the Castelluccia and Lio Imers's cheaper models. There's also a 50s Castelluccia on Reverb that I'm eying but I bet that one has a chunky neck. There's of course also the Tremblay on here that I bet Geese is willing to Negotiate and Craig's Gafiro.
i l missed this comment earlier...yes, to me playability is probably more important out of the box than the sound. Some guitars, when I picked them up, put them in my lap and put my hand on the fretboard, I thought "wow, damn". But then some guitars won me with the sound and playability can be tweaked to a larger degree than the sound. Sound wise, the things that can make a difference (even though fundamental voice of the instrument will not change) are strings, picks and bridge. The biggest thing playability wise that can't be changed, or it would be too expensive to change is the neck; width, depth, width at the nut, how the fretboard feels, weight of the neck. Let's say I had to play a gig on borrowed guitars and one sounded amazing and another was set up great and had amazing playability. I'll choose playability without a second thought.