They've had to put up with shrill-sounding high notes and muddy low notes. They haven't played a Sierra guitar with a 25-inch scale. Adding one inch to the scale length may not seem like much, but it's no exaggeration to say the difference is night and day.
Treble strings lose none of their brightness, but they sound bigger and rounder.
Bass strings acquire a harmonic richness and presence it's impossible to achieve with a shorter scale. There's never been a good musical reason for the shorter scale. It's always been used to keep string breakage to a minimum, since the shorter scale re- duces string tension. Sierra has eliminated this problem by employing a unique gearless tuner. There is no extra string length behind the nut to in- crease string tension.