Very good strings indeed, i've been a really long time user of these gauge, from a sound standpoint they've changed a lot in the last year. The tone is piano like, they are very crisp as known, i bought these strings mainly for the very open sounding E, and now they don't sound open. I was looking for a John Enstwistle kind of sound, and this time they disappointed me. If you are searching that tone, this strings gonna help you very much, but the E string is really bad.