Street Avenger said:
"Buzz" has to do with the guitar's set up and action. SS frets do not buzz any more than nickle frets.
Absolutely. No question about it, no interpretation needed. If any of my guitars or those I work on had even the
slightest buzz, that neck would be off there so fast there'd be a hard vacuum around my worktable for 3 minutes that would draw up every spider and centipede in the house into one concentrated place where I could kill them all with a single judicious application of whatever that poison is the dealer sold me while thinking I was a licensed contractor (Hey, I didn't lie. I simply said I was authorized to apply the stuff, and left out the part about who authorized me. Don't ask, don't tell <grin>)
Anyway, the only times I've ever heard buzz is when I've forgotten to put any relief in the neck during setup. Even then, it wasn't buzz so much as they just sounded dead. Don't let anyone kid you: if there's buzz, a fret is still too proud or it ain't set up right, or both.
You can get away with some unusually tight action on an electric due to S/N ratio and either natural or electronically-assisted compression. But, acoustically, it'll sound like shit. Maybe that's what people are talking about. Personally, when I do a setup and am given free rein, I do the frets as if it
is going to be a shredder, but set it up to sound clean acoustically. Can't go wrong that way unless you
are a shredder, then the action may be a bit higher than is practical for that playing style. But, thankfully, there aren't that many Yngwies in the world.