Has anyone tried the new Larsen Virtuoso Strings for Violin?

[CCM]

I was wondering if anybody has tried the new Larsen Virtuoso Strings for Violin yet. I had 2 people ask me about them. Thanks

[mmmm]

Is there a link?

[CCM]

Is there a link?

Nope, because the the products section of the Larsen website is "under construction".

[mmmm]

Well...they seem to have them at gostrings.com...has anyone gone for it yet? Who's going to be first...

http://www.gostrings.com/larsenvirtuoso.html

[Erlkonig]

I picked up a set from Howard Core at the VSA this year. They are incredibly colorful, have a great deal of power, can be pushed without cracking (and I play with a fairly heavy right hand), and are incredibly comfortable under the left hand.

I've had them on one of my personal violins since I got back and have found them to be incredibly stable and have not had any issues with the sound degrading after the first few weeks. The break in time was very quick and they sounded the same out of the package as they do now.

Overall....great string that I would highly recommend and I'll be interested to try the stark version as well.

[Erlkonig]

Forgot this part...The E is a bit thin sounding and I'm not a huge fan. I've paired them with either a gold label e or hill e and the set has good balance.

[mmmm]

Forgot this part...The E is a bit thin sounding and I'm not a huge fan. I've paired them with either a gold label e or hill e and the set has good balance.

Medium gauge gold label or hill e's? Just curious...

[robertdo]

I noticed that for many of the string sets, the E string is disliked by the players and replaced by a Hill, jarguar or goldbrokat E string. It would be faster to sell only the GDA for each set...

[JSully]

A strings for viola, too. Lots of players i know use a Larsen or Jargar A. Although helicore and evah's are usually

complete sets in my experience.

[richardz]

Does anyone have any further input on these strings?

Apparently they have 2 guages medium and strong (perhaps in response to peoples comments on the e)

[duane88]

I got 5 sets of them from HC when they first came out.

 

I agree with the thin-sounding E. 

 

As for the rest, they were nice enough, but I ended taking them off of the better instruments that I put them on and using them to sell cheaper violins. They didn't like being pushed and I haven't found a use for them in the shop as of yet. They make an under 1k instrument sound wonderful!

 

Every violin that I had them on sounded better with visions or PIs.

[christian bayon]

I like the strings, the E is velvet sounding but not weak.

[richardz]

Looking at opinions from elsewhere, I read these strings performed as well as, and might sound as good as some of the most expensive new strings and additionally were perhaps a bit more durable. Did anyone else have that experience with them? Thank you for any input.