| It's in my experience people hear 'brighter', they hear 'better.' The fatness of the tone in guitar strings comes from the diameter of the cores of the strings, not the size of the string gauge and yeah the material. Generally speaking electric strings are smaller gauged and have smaller cores which end up producing less bottom end. When this happens you can hear more of the top end since there's no low end to inter fear. This is just general. You may have the hugest sounding acoustic with giant nickel cores.
The Catalina's haven't been around for a while. The first couple batches were made in Japan. It's a cheaper model. But hey if it sounds good, use it. As far as strings out there. I've been playing Martin SP's lately. They use Swedish stainless steel cores and electroplate bronze onto the cores and plain strings making the B and E strings less metallic sounding and more smooth sounding.
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