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While you're at it, check out this article and make sure you go to the last page and play the musical clips of three, very different violins. http://www.nytimes.com/packages/khtm...N_GRAPHIC.html

Tough call Garrett considering they're different recordings and what not. I assume in the first post the guy was listening to whatever are considered very competent examples of the instrument.

It may have more to do with the skill of the violinist. Knowing you're playing a Strad just may give you a bit of a rush that you use to your advantage to play it to the best of your ability. I posted this on another forum Robert and someone mentioned an interesting article in the Sunday Science...

http://www.livescience.com/othernews...treatment.html Some examination of the reknowned Strads indicates they were likely chemically treated in contrast to other violins made at the time or for that matter now. The treatment though is postulated to have been done for insect and fungus...