That clang is what premium mandolins solve. Expensive and worth it. By expensive I mean $1500 used A style. After that you get minimal increase in tone for maximum money.
Fortunately/unfortunately my shop is Gryphon, so I played a lot of Collings and Northfield mandolins. It was always the Eastman G strings that bothered me.
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