I have used rotosounds forever, i started off with the pink 9-42's and have been on the 10-46 yellows for about 5 years now... i've never broken a string with the 10's, ever.
Last week i thought id try some d'addario EXL110 10-46 as a change, i put them on and immediately the top e snapped whilst stretching, i put a rotosound 10 on as a replacement as it was all i had. everything was then great and i was quite suprised how easy they were to bend compared to the rotos, the g string was easier to bend than the roto top e! then the d'addario b string snapped 10 mins later
they both snapped at the ball end btw.
I took them all off in disgust and put my old faves, the roto yellows on and everything is fine again...
Has anyone had this experience with them snapping so easily? they were a brand new pack and the qr code says they are genuine.
i'm quite disappointed to say the least, but was pleasantly suprised by how much slinkier the EXLs were in comparision.
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Can't recall his Fretboard name but a D'addario representative is often on this site
I don't really care much about strings brand, so long as the gauge is good, I'm happy,D'Dario and EB both work very nicely.
I've used D'Addario on all my guitars for a very long time (apart from a brief time where I used Newtones on my acoustics) and I'm not sure when I last broke a string. It may well have been more than 5 years ago.
Did the D'Adds come from fleabay by any chance, I'm fairly sure i had a set of fakes a while ago. The plating wasn't great, normally it's perfect. Now I buy from 'known' places only. Just a thought but D'Adds seem to be fairly common.
edit - meant to say "fake D's are common"
Are all the qr codes different? i could understand the influx of chinese copies with all the same qr codes
I thought the codes were meant to be all different, but how many people actually go to the D'addario website to check? I suspect it will be a relatively low percentage. I've only started doing it recently and that's only because I can get free stuff eventually.
If the fakers are copying genuine ones, or have cracked the algorithm that generates them, and the code hasn't been registered before then the D'Addario site might well accept them.
I tend to buy from well known retailers. I used to use Strings Direct but I must admit that recently I have bought from Amazon as they are significantly cheaper. I'll only buy the ones Amazon sell themselves though, not from any of the third party resellers on Amazon.
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Errrm.. I just checked that seller's other items...
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Philtre said:
And, yes, they are genuine as I have some and checked the s/n