Members Grant Harding Posted April 24, 2018 Members Share Posted April 24, 2018 Cool endorsement! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Danocoustic Posted April 24, 2018 Members Share Posted April 24, 2018 Loved you reviews of Collings guitars. ALL strings sound great, new. Just sayin', yo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Idunno Posted April 24, 2018 Members Share Posted April 24, 2018 Yep. No alloys, coatings or package comments can change that. Physics rules. Mine came off every three weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Grant Harding Posted April 25, 2018 Members Share Posted April 25, 2018 Sounds really good, but doesn't shake my newfound love of DR Veritas strings. Send me a set and I'll test drive them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeepEnd Posted April 26, 2018 Members Share Posted April 26, 2018 Loved you reviews of Collings guitars. ALL strings sound great, new. Just sayin', yo. Actually that's a matter of taste. IMHO, brand new strings sound awful, some brands worse than others. I wait until the initial harsh sound disappears, then strings sound pretty good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members maplebaby Posted June 16, 2019 Author Members Share Posted June 16, 2019 just info to share...appreciate the comments! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Danocoustic Posted June 16, 2019 Members Share Posted June 16, 2019 Actually that's a matter of taste. IMHO, brand new strings sound awful, some brands worse than others. I wait until the initial harsh sound disappears, then strings sound pretty good. is there anything you DON'T know everything about? and is there ANYTHING I can say that you won't gainsay? tiresome this is a major reason I don't post much here anymore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeepEnd Posted June 16, 2019 Members Share Posted June 16, 2019 just info to share...appreciate the comments! Always appreciate your POV. SonoTone strings are a bit pricey for me but I can understand why someone like you might use them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Idunno Posted June 16, 2019 Members Share Posted June 16, 2019 D'Addario extrudes their own music wire. Most of the guitar brand strings are made by Mapes or another extruder I can't name at the moment. Mapes also sells strings under their own name and they're cheap (3-pack). I haven't bought them yet because D'Addarios products have been fine. I change steal strings every three weeks because that new sound of the strings is the sound the maker alloys and extrudes them for. Anything after that (settling in) period is when the trebles have lost their brilliance. I like the brilliance and three weeks is usually when that starts going south. I wonder who makes Sono Tone's string sets. Few string brands alloy and extrude their own music wire so I'm guessing they buy them already packaged by the OEM they contract with. If so, and Mapes is the maker, the mark-up at $18.00+ is north of 100%. I just bought a 3-set package of Mapes Phosphor-Bronze strings for $23.50 shipped. I went to the Sono Tone site and selected their "lab" button. It took me to a picture of a room with a couch and guitars. The testimonial page lauds the products but otherwise there's not much from the company qualifying the science and selection of their materials. https://www.mapesstrings.com/mapes-quality-difference/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Grant Harding Posted June 17, 2019 Members Share Posted June 17, 2019 Just clarifying - are you in any way affiliated with the company that makes the strings or anyone that sells them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted June 17, 2019 Share Posted June 17, 2019 is there anything you DON'T know everything about? and is there ANYTHING I can say that you won't gainsay? tiresome this is a major reason I don't post much here anymore Looks like he disagrees with you, and prefers the sound of strings that have broken in a bit. He isn’t the only guitarist who holds that POV, but even if he was, then so what? He is as entitled to his own POV as much as the rest of us are. And were you really looking to be offended so much that you felt you had to reply to a post that is over a year old? Tiresome, indeed.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeepEnd Posted June 17, 2019 Members Share Posted June 17, 2019 D'Addario extrudes their own music wire. Most of the guitar brand strings are made by Mapes or another extruder I can't name at the moment. . . .[/url] Thanks for the research. IIRC, GHS also draws their own wire. I have no idea who provides the wire for Ernie Ball Aluminum Bronze strings but I like them. As always, YMMV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Neal Posted July 16, 2019 Members Share Posted July 16, 2019 Hey! STRING THREAD!! Plus it put maplebaby up top so you can listen to some good music. are you listening? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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