Thomastik CRK (treble) strings

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Anyone here have experience with those supposedly hybrid material strings, esp. the trebles?

I bought the HT trebles as singles and still don't know what to think about them. They may indeed sound a little bit warmer than the Savarez Alliance HT trebles but I'm not convinced they really sound as if they're the nylon/carbon blend they're claimed to be.

I also find the tension profile rather strange: over 9kg for the 1st and much less (<7 IIRC) for the 2nd and 3rd. I think that HT 1st is a bit too heavy for my Cabaret but the others have less tension than the Rubinos I normally use and indeed sound a bit thin compared to those.


(Nylon and "carbonfluor" - PVDC if I remember correctly - are chemically incompatible so it's unlikely that Thomastik managed to blend them ... esp. since they probably don't run their own extruders.)