String tasting audio files?

[hank]

I had to smile while reading Ted's JM11 classified this morning. Pretty good audio imagery Ted. Unfortunately my early morning unbridled mind ask's why use words to describe a sound?
Same mandolin, same demo techniques and tune (possibly even some smacking demonstrations ), same pick and performer, same play in time. A lot of cost and up down Leroy but a true back to back comparison of our most beloved strings unaided by owner/seller verbage. Hmmmmm

[jim_n_virginia]

Same mandolin, same demo techniques and tune (possibly even some smacking demonstrations ), same pick and performer, same play in time. A lot of cost and up down Leroy but a true back to back comparison of our most beloved strings unaided by owner/seller verbage. Hmmmmm

huhhh???

[Ray(T)]

Don't know what it is but I bet its illegal !!

[hank]

Ken Cartwright Mandolin Tasting CD's compared mandolins. String Tasting would level the playing field to hear a back to back real comparison of available string designs. An audio demonstration of response, sustain, brightness, bell like qualities, what ever.

[Tim2723]

Sorry, you've said it twice and I still have no idea what you're talking about. Do you mean a set of recordings using different strings played by one person on a single instument to compare their qualities? That might be an interesting time-killer, but since the mass of experience says that a given string will respond differently on different mandolins, why bother?

[jim_n_virginia]

my own conclusions are that they are basically useless because it is limited by the quality of the speakers that the audio files are listened through.

Even if the speakers are high quality fidelity speakers and not little computer speakers you are still not getting the real sound of the instrument.

It's been my experience that the only way to really hear differences are live sound.

I'm no engineer and so I only know what I hear.

[Hubert Angaiak]

Did David Grisman say the tone is all in your fingers?