Playing the Dynamo strings is kind of like eating at a Michelin star restaurant. You get the best ingredients, you have a full course meal with all the different flavors. It's a work of art on the plate.
I don't know if you're into fine dining, but that's how I feel about the Dynamo strings. The Dynamo strings are kind of like a Michelin star restaurant because you have the finest ingredients to eat and you are given this wonderful artistic presentation of the food in front of you and Dynamo tends to be in that category. But, they're expensive and they don't last as long as you think.
First thing to note, Dynamo strings are excellent strings. You get all the colors that you want, the playability is just remarkable, the different types of colors that you can get out of your instrument has really pushed my instruments boundaries and I can do so much more with just a set of strings.
For a period of time I was thinking about actually buying a new instrument because I felt like I needed more out of my instrument. But, I didn't want to have to spend another twenty thousand dollars on a new instrument by a luthier or maybe a fine Italian instrument. So, I was thinking, “Okay, let me give these Dynamos a go.” The people at Thomastik-Infeld were generous enough to me to try an entire set of strings.
I've played these strings for about two months and I've tried them in different settings. I've been playing approximately four hours a day (this does not include any potential gigs that I had). I'm a full-time violin teacher as well, so I've been playing on my instrument and I've been performing in various settings like musicals,and in orchestral settings.
I'm not gonna go into the specs of the strings because that's something that I've already talked about in one of my other Dynamo strings videos so take a look at that when you get a chance here.
In my opinion, the Dynamos are not for the beginner or intermediate violinist. They are more so for the advanced to professional violinist who is looking more out of their instrument someone who is consciously aware of the different colors and how to use different technique to get those colors out of an instrument. That is what these strings are designed to do and if you don't know how to do that then these strings are not for you.
However, the strings have a good lifespan for a professional string in this category. In my experience with other violin strings in this price category, they last about a month and a half to two months. If you are a soloist, you might be really encouraged to hear that because you might be changing strings once a month maybe once every two weeks so if I were you I would buy maybe 10 to 20 sets for the entire season and then see how they last with all the performances and all the practice so that way you have a fresh set of strings every time you play. But I find that the sweet spot for these Dynamo strings happen around the fifth day, around day five and day 14 out of these strings because you can get a good idea of the tuning stability maybe 24 hours after the string is settled onto your instrument and then pretty quickly these strings settle in but then like the sweet spot for you to really understand the potential of the strings and depending on your humidity depending on your instrument I found that between day five and day 14 when the strings have really really come to its own.
There's very little to be disappointed about these strings I have found them to be reliable and wonderful to play.