EXL125-10P : Great strings, shame about the packaging.

I've played D'addario strings for 28 years (custom lights for the last 25) - I've tried Ernie Ball and Elixir but keep coming back to D'addario for their feel and consistent, bright tone. The custom lights provide a great balance between light tops for ease of string bending, with heavier bottoms for big chunky chord playing. I play with quite an aggressive picking hand, but with d'addario I very rarely break strings. The only fault I have with them is that a few years ago D'addario stopped packaging the strings in individual paper sleeves in favour of all six strings coiled together in one sealed plastic package (to preserve their shelf life I guess). Unfortunately this sometimes makes the strings tricky to separate, and if you don't take care it's easy to get them kinked. For that they lose one star. That aside, a great product.