I'm looking forward to the review Boolie. I just ordered a new Ohana Ceder top tenor and might just try these on it after a while, as I'm pretty sure I'll pull the Super Nylguts off it as soon as they get broken in. I really want to like Aquilas but I found fluorocarbons to be better sounding to me. Maybe the ceder will mellow them out?
I really like the Reds but haven't had any luck keeping them for more that a couple of weeks.
Thanks Jack.
Once I make a recording on the concert Flea, I plan to remove them and install them on the concert Fluke, which sounds quite different form the Flea in it's tone, and make a recording with the Fluke as well, and time-permitting and if the string ends by the tuners are not too worn, also install them on my all-solid mahogany concert Mainland ukulele, and record that as well. I will record playing the same songs on each instrument.
I am planning to also have a short talking part of the video, rather than a 1,000-word forum post, that way everything is together.
I am using my Flea and Fluke ukes because 'out-of-the-box' they each have near-perfect intonation and this will establish a good baseline without worry about intonation issues, whereas the Mainland has very good intonation, but varies somewhat with string gauge and string tension, but the Mainland being all-solid wood will hopefully satisfy the ears of the folks that dislike the tone of Flea and Fluke ukulele, as well as satisfy the purists that think anything other than all-solid wood is junk.
So this way it covers all bases. I do not own, nor have an other laminate concert uke to test with, since that niche is filled by the concert Fluke and concert Flea for me...
The recordings will be with a stereo A/B matched pair of studio condenser microphones, so the audio should be good enough for even the most eclectic listeners and render very high audio fidelity.
[edited to add] I love the FEEL of the SuperNylgut strings under the fingers, and just wish they had more sustain, and shorter than tenor, the C string seems a little too low tension and I often replace it with a Thomastik-Infeld CF27 chrome flatwound classical guitar string, which has almost zero string squeak and the tone balances very well with the SuperNylgut strings without being louder or too boomy. However, the TONE of the SuperNylgut strings is very sweet and full, with great note clarity to my ear.