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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I've got well over 60 hours of playing time on this set Elxirs and they still sound and feel great.
I would have changed out Martin SPs two or three times by now. Though the lixers are pricey, I would have spent as much on three sets of other strings.
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Location: central nj | What is the average going price for a set? I am currenly using d'addario 12's - that originally came with the adamas. |
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Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma | They're generally twice the price yet you get three times the life out of them... It's like having a car that gets 75 miles per gallon but, you have to like the way it drives...
I like them on some guitars more than others... |
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Location: Hyattsville, MD | I keep D'addario EXPs on my Ovation and just started putting Elixir Polywebs on my Strat. I tried to go back to the Martin strings, but I kill them so fast that it seems like I end up spending more time re-striging than playing. Coated strings are one of the few things in this world that I think are actually worth the extra cash. Absolutely. Never go back. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | The 12 bucks is definitely worth shelling out for these. I use the Nanoweb and besides holding up so well, they are a damn good sounding string. |
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Location: closely held secret | Same here. Picked up 10 sets each of acoustic and electric Elixirs for a great price at the CMS 2 years ago.
Time for a refill, guess I'll have to go again this year. :D |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Waskel,
What did they cost, if you don't mind? |
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Location: closely held secret | I got them for $5 a set, but that was a special at CMS. I've seen them on sale occasionally at GC for $10. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Wow. 5$ is terriffic. I'd buy a case.
Cheapest I\'ve seen them |
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Location: closely held secret | Well, like I said, it was a special. A short-lived one. I didn't buy a case, but I bought a 10-set box of each.
Lasted me 2 years, and I must have given 4 of each away to friends...
At last years CMS they were $10/set. Still a pretty good price compared to retail. Plan to pick up a few in November. |
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Location: Anchorage, Alaska | In acoustic Guitar Magazine there is an ad from www.juststrings.com where if you buy 10 sets of Elixir strings online you get a free 12' Monster Performer 500 Instrument cable free. They are $12.00 per set. I haven't used Elixir's on any of my electrics yet but I have them on all of my acoustics these days. |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | IMHO they are Gawd-awful on electrics. With magnetic pickups you just got to have the snap and glassiness of tone that only uncoated strings can provide.
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Location: Carle Place, NY | I'm a true fan of the Elixir strings. I usually use custom light (.011 - .052) Nanowebs. I find that this gauge works great. Since they are usually not stocked by the local GC, I've been getting them online. I have three 6 string O's and so I buy 3 sets at a time. I recently bought them from this ad on eBay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=41433&item=7...
The seller was reliable with good communication and I got the strings relatively fast. $32 for 3 sets delivered is a very good price.
I find that Elixirs maintain about 80% of their original tone over the life of the strings and that they are good for a long time. |
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Location: Midland, MI | I just put nanowebs on the Elite, after using polywebs for the last year (or so). They feel slicker than the polywebs did. They sound great, though. Then again, so did the polywebs. I think I'll go back to the polywebs next time...which is about three months out. ;) Great strings. |
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Location: Cherry Hill, NJ | I always felt that if Ovation put Elixir strings on their guitars, they'd sell better in the showroom. Some models spend months hanging on the wall, and the strings just lose their brightness. I prefer the Nanos myself.
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Location: SoCal | Ovation puts D'Addario EXP's on their guitars. These are a coated string. |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | The unwound strings aren't coated, so to get maximum life, I replace the unwound ones with D'Addario singles as they lose their tone. The coated wound strings should be good for a few months, in my experience.
I've never cared for the Polywebs, but the Nanowebs seem good.
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Location: Germantown, MD | I wait until one of the local dealers has a two-for-the-price of one deal and pick up several sets of Elixirs then. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | While I agree that I normally don't care for the sound of the Elixers on electric guitars, I do string my Warrior electric with the nanowebs. This is because I have found that with the Warriors midi interface run into a Roland VG-88 or GR-33, for whatever reason, the coated strings seem to track much better than the regulars.
and since it is a synth sound, the original flavor of the string is somewhat lost anyhow. |
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Location: SoCal | As I've posted before, poly's and nano's both have their place on my guitars. The poly's with the thicker coatings go on my GC DB which is a very bright guitar to begin with. They tend to "calm" it down a bit. The nano's with the thinner coatings and brighter sound go on the 1537 which needs a little brightening up.
It should be mentioned that there have been whole threads on this subject in the past. If you reveiw them, you'll see that there are strong feelings pro and con on coated strings. |
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Location: WV | I am an Elixir user and unless something better comes along will stay that way. They can really make a diference. Here is an eBay seller that usually has pretty good deals.
http://stores.ebay.com/StringItUp-Guitar-Strings-Store |
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| I'm pretty much exclusively using elixir's and on my Ovations they stay in tune and seem to last forever. Thought they felt a little greasy when I first started using em but used to it now.
have nanos on the Alvarez CC1(doesn't stay in tune as well but I tend to trem out a lot on that one) the wilkinson trem and nut are pretty decent tho.
I have flatwound chromes on the other guitar and between that and the new elx changes it has a very Creedence kind of tone. plus the Chromes look pretty cool too on the ebony epi.
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Gotta Hand It To ELIXIR