Well...I've got an interesting next week coming up.
I'll take a violin from a luthier in the region (with improved setup by my bowmaker
www.arcus-bow.de), a violin from a maker in Murnau where my teacher lives and go with those and my current instrument to visit the man near munich. Then we can do a proper all-out comparison...
I also went to the "Musikmesse" in Frankfurt last Saturday and tried quite a few violins there, but the only good one I found was from an italian makes called Lorenzo Frignani and it was not for sale. I sent him a message asking whether he has any other instrument and whether he could send me one for a trial period, but he has not replied so far.
I got a response on the timeframe from Schleske and the maker from Murnau, they both say it'll be about a year before they can get an instrument ready for me...I guess there is little I can do about that...and Greiner, the most popular (and expensive) violin maker at the moment also replied and said that the best he could offer me would be a violin in 2012...*lol*
I'll keep you posted on the progress.