Hey guys I currently have D'addario Phosphor Bronze EJ16's on my Garrison acoustic guitar right now.  I have boutght the same strings the last 3 times I had to change em and I thought to myself am I missing out right now on other brands? or even within D'addario?  Like I was looking at some EXP's and Dean Markley's Gold Alchemy Gold Phos. and Blue Steels.  I use blue steels on my electric but I know that the EXP's and Gold Phos. are twice the price of the strings I normally use and was wondering if EXP's and Gold Phos. sound a **** whole lot better and last longer and the Blue steels are only 2 bucks more (CAN) so have you guys tried any of these strings?  The thing is I hate changing different kinds of strings all the time, which is why I kept using Phosphor broze, but I jus like to know if I'm missin out.

It's be helpful for another person's opinion.  Thanks guys!

I've used a many different brands and now I strictly use D'addario on both accoustic and electric. 

To me d'addario strings keep their tone and last longer than other brands.  Atomic did a comparison on strings a while back on the old forum that brought up some good points but the main thing is that d'addario came out on top.

As far as your subject line goes I choose D'addario over dean markley.  Deans are also good IMO but just not as good.

Dave ><>

Atomic is a forum member.  Sorry for the confusion.

Yes I did at some past time but I went back to D'addario's.  I just didn't like the tone as well.

Dave ><>

Well I don't know much about strings and i was wondering like what's so special about blue steels? like the cryogenic process? what it do? there's another Dean Markley exact same alloy but blue steel goes through that process and stuff.  And exps how do they put that coat on?

sorry man im kinda dumb

 like the cryogenic process? what it do?

The process is a deep freeze of the wire used to make the strings. Whenever you either rapidly chill /deep freeze or heat the wire up in boiling water as Eddie Van Halen with his strings is the result is a permant change in the molecular structure of the previous state of the wire before the chill or heat.

I would assume in theory that the cryogenic process might result in the strings having a "brighter" tone because the molecules are drawn closer together.

Blzman

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Okay, don't get upset. But I have a set of S.I.T. strings on one of my acoustics for about ten years. And yes they are still in tune and sound great. I don't know why. No rust, no tranish, and still in concert pitch. The axe is a inexpensive Kay and sounds fantastic.

Go figure.

H

"We are what we pretend to be" Kurt Vonnegut, jr.           

S.I.T's? what are they? 10 years?!?!?!??! 

holy moly! lol

10 years???  I think you've got me beat!  These days, it's about a month or two on the primary axe, and sometimes up to 6 mos on the backup, but when I first joined this band after a period of inactivity, I wound up going to the first gig with strings that I bet were 5 yrs old!!!  Local music store was out (!) and didn't get an order in in time.  Talk about scared - I barely dared to pick!  Made it, though.  Now I keep about 2 sets ahead, in case of further music store failure.

SG