I'm about to graduate to Alpahyue [Go, AU!! heh].. Excellent review. After listening closely to all the strings at the end of your video.. IMHO, I feel the Alphayue's are the winner! Thank yue !!
@@Fiddlershop I really enjoy your playing! I can sense real passion as you play. Music played without passion isn't music in my book! That Tchaikovsky concerto is one of my favorites. Two of my other favorites are Bruch's Scottish Fantasy, and Vieutemps' Concerto #5..
@@Fiddlershop I know this might not be on your list, but can you do a review of Pirastro Chromcor and Piranito? I use a set of Chromcors, and would like to know your thoughts on them.
I have alphayue on my $ 100 violin and they improve the sound, and it's nice. Only the E string is too bright, not very warm, and sometimes a bit annoying, because it is not a synthetic core.
Mairead Nesbitt loves these (because they have no settling in time) and talked me into getting a set of them. I did because they’re budget-friendly. I have yet to try them, though.
These are what my Pecard has and came with. I'm new so don't know but the e string is so damn hi pitch and loud. The string on this set is the only steel core. The rest are synthetic.
My daughter has a temporary rental that came with these. We both kind of hate them. Thinking we will switch back to the Dominants she's loved so long as soon as we have an excuse to change the strings.
I went from dominant to alphayue and they sounded very metalic, I didn't like them. Only kept them on for a few days. Not sure if they just needed more time to settle in?
@@Fiddlershop i actually JUST purchased (literally 5 mins ago) a B-stock midnight tower strings violin with the fiddlerman strings with the new member coupon for $205 tax included!!! I'm so excited, what a bargain :)
How do you think the “easyness” to play for different brands? I tried Thomastik spirit for cello. I am a beginner and somehow this brand feels so much easier to press firmly for the right tone than another brand
That's a great question, and strangely enough, I think the ease of playability really has more to do with the soundpost and bridge placement/height. Sometimes instruments just feel like they're fighting back, or other times like I have to drag the string to get a sound. If I hand it to the luthier for some adjustments, it can many times feel like a completely different instrument with just a quick change. But, I do really love Thomastik, and Pirastro in general (nothing against Larsen or D'Addario, I just don't play them quite as often)
They sound thinner than Dominants. Really not the place to economize if you can get a better string (Yitzhak Perlman and Hilary Hahn play Dominants, and they could easily afford US$100 and above sets!!) for just 25 bucks more, why settle for these? At least these sound better than D'Addario's Ascenté strings in the same price range, which are truly awful. In your comparison, the Helicores sound the best by a wide margin, but then they cost as much as Dominants.
They must think of these names while under the influence of CRACK! or maybe drinking some some European arty-farty tea high brow with the pinky upraised and a bit of snobbery added in... LOL But anything you do is OK by me Michael. I kind of like the Helicore strings followed by a very close Fiddlerman strings. The others are meh... close but a bit spanzy. I just enjoy your videos so much. Thanks
