Harley Benton Coated Phosphor 012 Anti Rust Reviews

Great product for the price

After a few days it lost it's clarity comparing to Daddario. Still a good budget string set to keep on your bag.

Great strings

For the price these strings are really excellent. It was a nice surprise. They sound bright and pleasing, and I really enjoy playing them. They still sound good to me after a few months of use, of course, they are not as bright sounding as new ones. I would recommend them.

Quite simply a good string!

Forgot about these on two guitars, and didn't change them for 4+ years. I know - that's not OK and the guitar Gods will punish me.

But lo and behold. They may have lost some crispness, but they've been played on and off, intonation is spot on still and none gave out. That's weird. And cool.

Its a good product

If you are like me who breaks strings all the time, or your hands are sweating a lot and you need to change strings every week this is the best thing you can find. I dont believe strings affect the tone at all.

For the price unbeatable

I put these strings on my Eastman E2OM and the sound is wonderfull. In the past years I tried many brands and to be hounest: I don't hear a sufficient difference between these ' cheapies' and the ' real thing' wich starts with an E or an M or a D'. It is all more or less the same. At least imho. Sometimes I think they come all out of the same factory with a different cover. I would recommend to try these strings on your acoustic. Try not to judge these strings by it's brand or price but openminded. I think you will be surprised. When they keep up souding as good as they do now and last for long I think this will be my choice.

Ok for the price

Strings are ok or the low price, but they sound a bit dead and muffled compared to other strings I’ve tried.

Great quality

I really like these strings.

Great price and quality.

Will definitely buy again

Good quality string according to the price

good quality string, using it for my primary acoustic guitar

People say that you can hear the sound difference between these and one of the major brands. I think I can back to back but they last a fair while sound good to my ears and are cheap.

I think most of it is string snobbery I don't buy others now just these

Please don’t compare to Elixir, compare to D’addario

D’addario and Elixir strings have completely different characters, Elixir is very bright, D’addario is more balanced. If you are looking for very bright, definitely go with Elixir. But D’addario is more suited for a warm sound. Which brings me to these strings. I bought a guitar that had D’addario exp16 coated on them and was enamored with the warm sound, just stunning for my fingerstyle playing. After the strings died I was kind of in a crisis because the d’addario exp 16 line was finished, and the new xt line was getting mixed feedback. I had never tried Elixir and put them on. The warmth of the instrument was gone totally. Before that I never thought different strings could make such a difference in sound. It was night and day. I’ve bought the d’addario strings now and they are one the way, but I still had some .12 coated strings from harley benton lying around. I put them on, and I was stunned. They sound ALMOST similar to the 3x as expensive d’addario exp16. How is this possible? How does harley benton do it?? Witchcraft, I say! Anyhow, my instrument was singing beautifully again and I am happy!

not much difference from higher priced strings

bang for your buck, and it seems to last long.

best for this price

nice strings for the price.

Actually awesome strings

Expected way less quality for that price

I play them for like 2 month, still sounds good

Good value for the price

Needing replacement strings I bought this set and found it to be surprisingly good for the price. Sound perhaps a little on the bright side but might be because the thin gauge. I cannot make any significant assessment about durability as I do not use them as often as I would like, but they are not rusty.

Cheap strings

reasonable quality strings for a small amount of euros

supergood

the stars say everything ... I'm sure I'll order more ... actually ... hahaha ... I'm just going to order them again

Great Strings and Amazing Value

Really long lasting strings that do exactly what the bigger dearer brands do at a fraction of the cost. Owning a few guitars and only playing some every now and then, I find these strings might last me 6-8 months as they don't rott away on the guitar just because its being played now and then. Great product

Retired Aerospace Specialist

Fitted on student's guitar. Nice and bright. Good value.

Decent enough

Not the best guitar strings obviously, but they're fine to carry in case you break a string during a performance or rehearsal, or if you don't want to spend too much money on more expensive ones.

Highly recommended for music schools though!

Do the job.

Ive used these on my own guitars and with student groups and they are fine, they do what they say on the box and with the use of a string cleaner they actually last a while and the intonation stays in ok also. On that note i've found with acoustics that if you press down on the string pins once you've tuned and then re tune it seems to help that acoustic intonation issue when strings start to go. Maybe this is common knowledge but I've only just discovered this, zoo in a nutshell don't worry about intonation, buy these keep them clean and save yourself some beer tokens!