I haven't tried to go super low but the best advice I saw on the other thread is to start with a new string and go up until you enjoy playing it. If you start high and tune down, you ruin some on the elasticity of the string and it won't work as well at the lower pitch.
Thanks Jim
I have said exactly this ^^^ (emphasis added by me) MANY times here in string discussions - you have to start LOW and upon first string installation with a new set, tune UP to the LOWER pitches, whatever they may be.
Right now, I have a set of Martin M620 strings on a tenor tuned to E-A-C#-F#, and it works fine partly because these strings have NEVER EVER EVER been tuned higher than that, and the 3rd string or "C" string from the set is a 0.0340" diameter fluoro string, which is thicker and higher tension than literally EVERY other all-fluoro string set that you can buy right now.
All of the 4 dozen or so fluoro sets that I have seen for sale, from about a dozen string brands, do not have a string thicker than 0.0320" or 0.0319", nor have an unwound fluoro string for that position with more than ~12 lbs tension.
Less than ~11 lbs of tension on a tenor, AT ANY PITCH is like a floppy rubber band and will give a tubby, muddy sound.
I have tried every single brand and set of strings that I could find to buy, from over a dozen different sources, and this I have proven in my own hands.
Whether YOU (as in YOU as in ANYONE at all) like the floppy feel, and tubby, muddy sound is a completely different issue, and one that I cannot speak to for you.
Some folks cannot tell any difference in string tension or sound, no matter what set they use, and maybe are just easy to please in that 'it sounds LIKE a ukulele', but there are some of us here on UU that have a more acute hearing perception and different preferences in just WHAT we want out ukes to SOUND LIKE, and oddly enough we are ALSO the few with the acute hearing perception to hear intonation problems that other folks are simply and COMPLETELY unaware of.
Sometimes, truly, ignorance is bliss.:music: