Quote Originally Posted by omphalopsychos
What surprised me was that with the Nickel Bronze, there was a huge difference in electric signal amplitude from the wound strings vs the plain ones. This was surprising to me because I've never had this issue using Philippe Bosset. It might sound trivial, but there's actually some significance to this. Whatever Philippe Bosset is doing with their string design, it's producing more ferromagnetic wound strings. I actually assumed it might be a larger steel core than other brands, but I'm not sure since the tension isn't any higher than others. But whatever it is, they not only sound great acoustically but they're also the most balanced with magnetic pickups, noticeably moreso than other modern bronze strings. I confirmed this statement applies both to their 80/20 and phosphor bronze sets.
I'm curious if this pickup balance is an observation you've made with all 80/20s in general or if it's specific to the Philippe Bosset ones?