Valuestrings EL 9-42 : Good news for the musician on a budget

These strings are incredibly well-priced and -certainly- the built quality is not 5 times worse than your average string set from a better known maker. I bought a few sets of these Harley Benton strings and I could not find a dead string in any of the sets. That is a credit to their quality. Yes, the tone was unremarkable but decent enough for most situations and the tone was the same in every set.

I suspect they are not going to be too kind on the frets but changing strings regularly generally helps extending fret life so even if they are tough the guitar player on a budget will be able to afford having them changed fairly often.

All in all, really outstanding value for money.