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This guitar is my main accompaniment instrument and I've been its only owner.  I love its crystalline sound, to my ear unusually bright and balanced for a dreadnought-style guitar.  It's made of mahogany and spruce.

I use Elixir Nanoweb Light strings because I don't like changing strings if I can avoid it, and the Elixir strings last weeks and weeks and weeks longer than other brands.

I recently installed L.R. Baggs active magnetic pickups in the soundholes of both my guitars.  I love those pickups on my 12-string guitar (per the below); I like them on the Taylor as well, certainly better than the Fishman Matrix that was installed in it before, which I could never get to sound less than horrific plugged into a soundboard.

I acquired this 12-string dirt-cheap through some concerted eBay bidding after my small-body Gibson 12-string suffered a tragic accident in the attic, falling off its stand and snapping its headstock.  The Yamaha is built like a tank and sounds a little like a tank too, if tanks were jangly and boomy at the same time.  However, I've found that I really like the sound of the Yamaha with the L.R. Baggs magnetic pickup--it sounds halfway to an electric guitar in an intriguing (and less boomy) way, whether strummed or fingerpicked.