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Originally Posted by Sl8e
Those are hand wound custom strings mostly made for headlless basses.
Just another sales pitch. They are more apt to break at the bridge.
right now DR is making the best strings out there.
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No, they're not hand wound.
No, they're not custom strings.
No, they're not mostly made for headless basses.
I've never seen or heard of any evidence that they're more prone to breaking at the bridge.
Offhand I know of four companies making taperwound sets, LaBella (Super Steps), Ken Smith (Taper Core), Dean Markley (SR2000) and GHS (Taper Core), and Rotosound PSD 99s are a contact core set. These are all regular production sets for regular basses. They just don't seem to be much of a factor in the market anymore.
In addition there are five string sets made with a taperwound B and sometimes a taperwound E too. Unless something has changed recently, the LaBella Hard Rockin' Steels have a tapered B, and there's a Fender set with tapered B and E.
If you like DR Strings, fine. That certainly doesn't make them the best.