D’addario XT differences
So… I’ll preface this by saying I’m not a gear nerd… for the last 10 years I’ve just put on a new set of J74’s every few months.
But, after reading D’addario’s advertising (and some positive comments on the Cafe), I thought I’d try the XT strings. I think they cost me 14 bucks?
Anyway, to me they sound deader than dead. Flat, muffled, soft… worse than the 4 month old J74’s that I removed.
I don’t care about the money…. Just curious if anyone else had the same experience? Did I get a bad batch? (I’m 99.9% sure they weren’t counterfeit) Or do they really sound that different? It appears the alloy is the same…is it just the effect of the coating? I think that only some of the strings are coated but they all sound dead to me.
New pack of J74’s going on tonight.. (actually I guess they are called EJ74’s now, I know). I’m still a D’addario fan.
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