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Most Cu22s have the PRS 5 way switching - older ones with a rotary switch, but the new ones with a Strat style blade switch. However, you will find some older ones with "McCarty wiring" - this is a 3 way switch with a push-pull coil tap. You can modify a rotary switch model to McCarty wiring.
Cu22 can come with the Wide-Fat or Wide-Thin (or Pattern and Pattern-Thin to use the new names) neck profile but McCarty is only
Wide-Fat.
McCarty body is deeper so it will be a bit heavier and more LP like. There is also more mahogany compared to the maple top
which may make a difference to sound.
McCarty has McCarty pickups. Cu22 has come with various pickups over the years.
Personally though, I would recommend the DGT if you want a PRS. I've owned and sold a McCarty and a Cu22. The DGT I have now (the one in my avatar) is better than them both.
It does depend what neck profile you want. If you want Wide-Thin then you need the Cu22. If you want Wide-Fat then
you have the choice of Cu22 or McCarty. The DGT comes with a Regular neck profile which I prefer but it's got other improvements as well. For me, it's the best PRS model there is.
McCartys tend to have move low end and less pronounced high-mids than CU22s. They are my favourite PRS, though the differences between the two are not vast.
I'd agree on the McCarty pickups. Mules would be a massive improvement.
Having said that I'm not a big fan of the pickups on the older Custom 22s either. In fact most of the older PRS pickups have a reputation for being middly and lacking detail although they were very good for the Santana type lead sound which wants lots of mids. They have introduced a lot of new pickups in the last few years that get a lot of praise from the corksniffers on TGP. I know the new Cu22s have different pickups from the old ones. I think they actually come with options on the pickups now.
If you are going second hand then you are probably looking at the older ones though and they won't be great with stock pickups. That's another reason I'd recommend the DGT. The stock pickups in it are absolutely brilliant. They sound great as humbuckers, but they also have the best coil tap sound I've heard.
I may be the only person you will ever hear say this but I really like McCarty pick-ups. The neck pup is pleasantly open, the bridge is slightly hotter and quite middly. When driven both sound fat and quite LP-like. I'm not a fan of bright-sounding HBs in solid guitars. I recognise this is a minority view but the OP might get on with stock McC pups. I certainly feel no need to change mine....