Really nice strings for their price, and while i still have not had to replace strings too many times and thus not tried too many, they were a nice upgrade to my initiate original strings on my Yamaha sv 200, as well as slightly cheaper pyramid strings i used. D and A strings are very full, warm and mellow sounding. the break in time is very quick within about a week of putting them on and they do not need adjusted very much after that, overall for the price they are a pretty decent set of strings. Not sure i would go with these again but perhaps another Pirastro string still.