Re: D'Addario Balanced tensioned strings
^^ They´re doing the exact same thing that thousands of players have been doing for decades, replacing single strings with lighter or stronger ones to get the feel they /you want. No more, no less.
They´re just packaging theirs and selling them as "balanced tension" sets.
As a luthier, I smell gallons of snake oil and marketing.
As a player, I don´t see anything they´re doing there that I can´t do better myself and haven´t done before.
But as a lazy fart that wants things easy without any effort on my part, I think it´s a great idea (except that, like Alec, I prefer the wound strings to be tighter).
But I´m also fully aware that "Easy", "good", and "correct" are in no way interchangeable terms, and I value the latter 2 significantly higher than the former. Combine that with a long history of excellent service from DR and I don´t think I´ll be buying a set anytime soon, or at least I won´t be actively searching for them...
