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Originally Posted by Brackett Instruments
I did a project a few years ago with 4 different Rosewoods on otherwise identical guitars. I posted 2 blind polls on the AGF, with Honduran Rosewood winning both polls. You can read about these guitars here. Brackett Instruments Rosewood Project I just noticed the sound clips no longer work. I'll get them fixed soon, and update this post.
Pictured from left to right, Honduran Rosewood, Panama Rosewood, Indian Rosewood, Brazilian Rosewood. |
I saw a similar blind test of recording microphones, with many high-end studio mics, as well as an entry-level Audio Technica and a Shure SM58. When the participants were blind, the AT mic outperformed in almost all categories, and the SM58 did quite well too. When they knew what mics they were listening to, the SM58 and AT were at the bottom in all categories.
Kind of funny how heavily we're influenced by names, whether it be "brazilian rosewood" or "sennheiser".