[Steko]

I don't doubt the study that much but I think the point everyone misses in their contrarian zeal to say 'Strads are nothing special' is that there has been enormous progress in instrument construction in the last 30 years and the actual takeaway from "3 cherry picked $30-40K new violins equal/beat Strads in double blind study funded by new violin maker" is not that 'Strad's are garbage' but perhaps that 'new top of the line violins are effing great'.