srshea -> RE: Strings (Feb. 8 2008 9:29:28)
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My own experience is just the opposite of Deniz’s (I’d prefer a combo of Luthier bass and La Bella Treble), which just goes to show how subjective all this is and how far from a consensus we all are. At any rate, my two cents: I use D’Addario EJ45s as a base to compare all other strings. Dirty cheap, super consistent, good sound, and they last forever and ever. Luthier 20s are good, and sound really great at first, though their initial brilliance wears off pretty quick, at which point they pretty much end up sounding like the EJ45s but cost an extra couple of bucks more. The difference in sound isn’t great enough to warrant the additional cost, IMO. LaBella 820B have great (black) trebles, but lousy basses. I found that the basses wore out really quickly, faster than any other strings I can recall. Price is midway between the D’Addario and the Luthiers. I tried Hannabach 827 Flamenco MTs once and thought they were totally crappy. Dull sound, bad feel, short life, and ugly, burnt-orange/red-ish trebles. After trying out a number of things myself I think I’m leaning towards settling on an 820B treble/EJ45 bass mix. For me this is working out to be the best combo of sound, string-life, and cost. And stringsbymail.com is definitely the way to go, at least if you’re in the U.S.. I haven’t seen lower prices (I just did a quick check and they’re notably cheaper than juststrings), shipping is quick and reliable, can’t go wrong.
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