Cheap Amazon Soprano Sax VS Professional Instrument | Unboxing + Review

These videos have made me a firm believer that the majority of the sound is the musician not the horn

The soprano saxophone...or as I call it, the "b-flat Armored Clarinet."

The sax: *plays well This guy: huh. That's weird

Thank-you for your videos! When I was younger, I was a proficient alto sax player. Now at 55 yrs old, I wanted to try a soprano, call it a winter hobby. After watching this and your video comparing altos, I bought an Ammoon LADE curved soprano sax from Amazon and got a Yamaha 4C mouthpiece for it. Similar to your experiences, so far, mostly good! It arrived in one piece and tightly in its case. All of the keys are tight, no loose screws, springs or rods, however, it would not play low B or B-flat due to a leak. I took it to a local experienced repair man who has a 1928 curved soprano Buescher in very good condition that we compared it to (he was pleasantly surprised at how the LADE played)! The LADE actually sounds pretty decent (he made the adjustment so that the LADE can play all notes now). I left it with him for some fine tuning. Similar to your experience, some of the keys have too thin of cork, so those keys open wider than a european tolerance (playable but inefficient). The lower B and B-flat keys have too thick of felt. The pads are seated deeply, so they may not last as long as a higher quality-controlled sax. But, for me to fiddle around with, its a keeper. Thanks again for your videos!

TOTALLY cracked up at the "That's odd... this saxophone only plays Kenny G!" lolol

Dude...if this company ever makes a bari sax of atleast somewhat equal quality for a proportionally reasonable price...review that too.

Been watching your videos for a little while now, and I love them! Thanks for sharing your thoughts on so many sax topics. I got today's listen test wrong, and I'm shocked. I really thought you sounded better on A.

I’m convinced it’s the musician and price doesn’t matter.

When I gave trumpet lessons some 48 years ago as a professional musician, a mother of a student apologized for having to buy her son such a cheap trumpet. I picked the horn, put my mouthpiece in the her son's horn and played some golden tone improvs of the tune Laura. She was astounded at how good the horn sounded. I then thanked her for at least buying him a horn to get him started enriching his life with musical performance. She thanked me and started to cry.

I chose “B” immediately because, as a clarinetist, I could hear air escaping from the tone holes in several parts of the instrument’s range, and could also detect much more effort on your part trying to make the comparison as fair as the instrument’s lower quality allows. A very, very helpful video for those who may be choosing a beginning instrument for lessons.

I love playing the soprano sax. Whole different feel to playing this instrument. Especially if you have the ability to improvise. Opens up a whole new world for me. I had played the eb sax for many years and still love to play this instrument as well. Thanks for sharing. Really enjoy your videos. Canada

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"A" sounds more compact, focused. "B" has a little more spread with a little airiness around the tone. I prefer "A"

B is definitely much Richer sounding. Nice blind test the little differences really stand out.

I am not a sax player or even a good musician I am afraid to say, but I appreciate your music and reviews they are quite interesting. Thanks for the education.

Took a while but it became very evident, when moving into the higher register, that B, was the king. Much more resonant. Musically beautiful. Claranet sounding almost! Just lovely!

At this point you might as well play the tenor they have

More convincing than ever that the greatness of the player can overcome the weaknesses of the instrument 🎷!!! Thanks for the demo of this fact! 😀🚀

The tone is in the player (air control, attack, embouchure) and mouthpiece setup (reed, ligature, mouthpiece type). The horn mainly controls ease of use and intonation

B has a slightly fuller sound but for the extremely low price A is amazing, I’m actually gonna pick one of these up and return if it’s bad