I literally could not find a sound file that I could listen to outside of Farcebuch and I refuse to join. What bothers me most about the instrument aside from no binding or forward projecting hole is the rediculous break angle over the bridge. I'll take everyones word that it doesn't sound like much.
A break angle that steep puts a he!! of a lot of pressure on the top. It actually is most likely a deterrent to moving the top and having it pushing down on the top and literally a couple of inches away doing the exact opposite doesn't do anything to make the top vibrate. In mandolin family and archtop guitar family, break angles are very important. Lower angles make for a more refined tone and higher make a louder instrument but you start to loose that refined tone till it just becomes brash and LOUD.
Probably an earlier one here that makes a little more sense, but would have rather seen a tailpiece and a bridge an inch lower than the one above. Any good repair person would say that the neck needed a reset.
Now the blah that went with the first set of photos said no bracing other than some kind of CF or whatever plate to hold the string ends and I suppose the counter reinforcement to the bridge. That was tried on mandolins some 15-20 years ago by "The Loar" or some other Pac-Rim mfgr and that was a waste of time. I can say with a lot of certainty that top reinforcements are there for a purpose and that is to stabilize the tone produced. Those mandolins with no tone bars had a rather "scattered" tone and lacked focus.
Guess if I were an acoustic jazz player, I would rather have a Loar signed L5...
But you all knew that...
