• These are all I use now...

  
  As reviewed by Moose Lewis on 1/19/2010

  I'm a little perplexed about some of the issues sited in the other reviews, since I have been using these for a few years now with no worries. Most 'good' strings dramatically loose their shine (especially for recording) in a few days. These hold their excellent tone very well, and I don't need to change them nearly as often. I use a wide variety of standard and custom tunings for my work, and have not had a problem with string breakage - period. Keep making them this good, and I'll keep buying them... going to my local GC for a set today. Cheers!

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• Best Sounding Acoustic strings but not good for alternate tunings

  
  As reviewed by Kevin on 1/24/2008

  I absolutely love the way these strings sound and feel. They have the brightest sound and they last about 2 or times longer than your average acoustic string. The downside? Elixer acoustic strings are more exspensive than your average acoustic string. For any serious guitar player this shouldn't be a big issue. My main problem with the elixers is that they are horrible for detuning. I play a lot of funky tunings where I'll raise or drop my strings 2-3 steps. It never fails, the high E string and the G string always break when I detune. So In short if I were keeping my guitar in standard tuning or drop D only I would keep my acoustic strung with these, unfortunately with the amount of detuning I do and the price point of these strings it makes it difficult to warrant the purchse of them

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• What did I pay for?

  
  As reviewed by Kyle on 10/24/2010

  I have been using D'Addario EXP's (EXP16 and EXP17) on a super-jumbo acoustic guitar. Just on a whim I decided to try these Elixir's (Light Nanoweb .12's) to see the difference in the two as I wanted to really lock down which strings I wanted to use as my choice of strings as I have narrowed it down to EXP and Elixir's because I've heard they were the best. I put the EXP's on and 5 months later I switched to these Elixir's. The EXP's were still practically new - no wear on them, still had really bright tone and lots of reponse. I put the Elixir's on and I will admit that the strings sound good. However, there is the problem - the STRINGS sound good. I want the strings to compliment how my GUITAR sounds. I want my guitar to sound like a guitar and the strings to really bring out the brightness and the bass aspect as well. With the Elixir's it felt like I was playing these expensive strings other than this gorgeous guitar. So overall if you want a coated string for a couple bucks less with, in my opinion, more response and tone, go with D'Addario EXP16's.

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