I have played only one ESP LTD, an EC-100QM ok, the one I saw had this gorgeous quilt top, it was one of the best quilt tops I had ever seen. so, I just had to try it out. so the guy at the store set me up through a marshall JCM2000 TSL100, and it sounded awesome, but then I said to him something like "but, anything would sound good through this amp" and much to his disappointment, I asked to try it out through an amp identical to the one I own. and guess what? although the guitar looked, and felt nice, the sound was not all that great, not near as good as my gibson... so, needless to say, I left that store without spending a dime.

so, please, try it out first if you are serious about it, otherwise you will never know if it is actually worse then your ibanez...

personally, I would just stick with the ibanez, it's bad to pick a guitar based on looks, go for sound and feel first, then turn to looks... you can find good sounding guitars that look equally as good. just check out my gibson SG, which looks, sounds, and plays better then any other guitar that I've played in the price range ($650)