D'Addario Phosphor Bronze Acoustic Guitar Strings, Custom Light, 11-52 (EJ26)

Best strings. Tone holds up even with lighter guage.

I’ve been an Elixir brand string buyer for my acoustic guitars for years. When a good friend recommended these, I gave them a shot knowing that if wasn’t impressed she would buy them from me. Changed out with strings and I absolutely LOVE them, and the price for a five pack of strings is reasonable. The tone it pulls from my guitars makes me want to play them more. Excellent quality, bright and balanced tone. I’m a believer!!

I have used D'Addario light gauge phosphor bronze strings often on my acoustics, but recently downsized to the custom light gauge .11-.52. I prefer this gauge for finger picking on my Guild F30R, but will string these on my D25BR too. As I get older, my finger pads just need a break, and while I have played medium and standard light sets of all sorts of brands of strings over the years, .11-.52 is where I find myself today. Easy to play, great tone, and the PB alloy makes them last a bit longer than 80/20. And if I can get 2 months out of the EJ26s, well at $9 a pop, that is a great value! I recommend this set for beginners as well, a great place to start, and the gauge will not deter you from playing.

I've been buying these strings for my acoustic guitar from Guitar Center for several years now. I've become frustrated with GC for a few reasons lately so Amazon now gets this aspect of my business too. These strings sound great on my Takamine Dreadnaut. I also use only D'Addario XL '9' and '10' sized string sets on my electrics and IMHO you can't get a better sounding, longer lasting string set for those instruments. I'm lazy and don't change strings any more often than I really have to. The XLs last me at least 2 months, sometimes more than 3 on the electrics so my only complaint about the Phosphor Bronze sets for acoustic is that they start losing thier brightness within 2 or 3 weeks. If I were very picky or played in front of an audience I'd be replacing these at least every week. For my living room audience of mostly just me, these usually stay on for at least a month but I can hear some degrade in tone well within that time. I've tried the coated strings including the Elixers but to my ear they sound only as good when first installed as the D'Addarios do after 2 or 3 weeks of playing. The coated strings just aren't as bright-- they sound a bit muted. Why pay so much more for lesser tone that lasts longer as lesser tone?

Very happy I bought these!! The weight, tone and ease of install went well. They sound on point. I was able to play that night they came. Would highly recommend….. and also gave me enough length to play with

i like these strings, but i am very new to guitar. good full-body sound and not too hard on tender fingers

I LOVE THESE STRINGS !! I played as a worship leader for 30yrs on my AE Alverez ... and several others. I love the lighter 11ga progressing too the booming 52ga for an amazing FULL SOUND. PHOSPHER BRONSE brings out a great projeted tone quality for big sound volume in open areas amped or not.

Anyone who plays a lot know that strings are very much a personal thing. The tonal qualities, weight, feel, materials and all other qualities / variables combine to make strings your very own personal favorite. For me these strings bring it all together and are my string of choice for all 12 acoustic electrics I use to play what I consider rock ballads using my strumming-style of play. I love the feel and tone of these strings for my style of play and my equipment set-up. I do have some issues with these strings, but overall, I'm willing to put up with the issues for the overall performance I get from the EJ26 strings. The issues include what I think may be premature breakage. I do not play "hard", I play long (playing several hours daily), but I play rock ballads using a somewhat softer strumming style. (I definitely do not "pound" on the strings - I like to think of it as fairly "gentle" strumming.) Yet, I seem to manage to break the high E & B strings on a regular basis (by playing, not by over tuning). Some of this can be expected, but what bothers me is the frequency with which I'm breaking G strings. I simply don't think these wound G's should be breaking at all with my style of playing. I've noticed that the current "most helpful critical review" mentions this same problem. I change strings frequently so I don't think this is the reason they are breaking. Overall, I am willing to put-up with what I believe to be some premature breakage (especially with the G string), for the other qualities that draw me to the EJ26 strings. They sound great for my style of play, equipment, and set-up. They feel great. I love 'em and will continue to buy quantities of them for my 12 acoustic electrics. I just wish I had a better feeling about the premature breakage.

Excelentes cuerdas, tienen un sonido cálido y son de muy buena calidad, me agradaron bastante

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Otimas cordas ficou um som muito bom no violão

Perfect and on time.

Voor mijn Eastman gitaren de perfecte set snaren. Blijven lang goed qua klank en looks.