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Altho, eventually .....
posts like this almost always revert back to "it's the fingers, not the pickups, that make the tone". Someone says XYZ pickups sound terrible. And, someone else says I don't know I think, or people who hear mine say, they sound great. Well, I don't know about that. But, if we all go and get the same gear _____ (fill in the name of your favorite or best guitarist) uses, I know that few of us, if any, will sound as good. And, if _____ (same name) changes gear, and we pick up his new gear, we still won't sound as good, and he'll sound just as good.
Now, one person posts that AmerSeries pickups sound terrible. Some agree and some disagree. But, do any of us think the Fender guys sat around and said now that we've come up with a great neck/fingerboard (and pretty much everyone raves about the neck/fingerboards), let's put the absolute worst pickups we can find in the new AmerSeries? If the object is to sell guitars, and if people stop buying Fender guitars, then, they'll go out of business and we won't be to discuss "current" pickups because there won't be "current" guitars, well Fender must be doing something right. The price of new Amer Teles keeps going up and Fender keeps making, and selling, more. So, someone must like the AmerSeries pickups, because people keep buying the guitars.
One man's opinion is nothing more than that man's opinion. Sometimes what counts is the opinion of the many (or at least those who vote with their wallets).
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