The real. I am still yet to try/hear. The biggest differences as someone else said between the two is that the Casino is fully hollow inside vs the ES having a block of wood. The Casino Coupe is almost the same thing as the , just with P90's and a fully hollow body instead of humbuckers/semi-hollow. This is mostly due to their useful size. ES is a semi hollow guitar that comes with either humbuckers of P90s (I prefer. A lot of guitarists find the size body of the original Casino a little unwieldy, but the coupe size, which is closer to a , was much more. Casino Coupe is a hollow body guitar that comes with P90s. The ES Pro with humbucking type Alnico coil tapped pickups and Push/Pull Volume Pots' knobs have a broader pallette of tones than you will. For the low low price quoted by the OP, or the even lower price of $ which I paid. The Coupe is very much louder acoustically, while the ES's sound is closer. I've narrowed it down to two guitars - The Epiphone ES and Casino Coupe. The ES and the Casino Coupe are only superficially alike. M/F for my Epi ES P pro, you get the same. .