D'AddarioEJ45-3D Pro-Arte Nylon Classical Guitar Strings, Normal Tension, 3 Sets

Guitar teacher recommend for changing 3/4 Yamaha guitar strings it has been a few months passed and no issues at all. Safely passed grade 5 exam recently with it.Same with all strings it takes about 2 weeks to settle and afterwards stable sound no need to tune so often.

I am a classical guitarist with about 15-20 years of playing experience. I have tried numerous different strings and makes, and I find these to be the best.What makes these the best?A number of reasons.Firstly they are incredibly reliable. I change my strings about once ever 6 weeks, and in about 10 years I have never had a dud or weak string from the pack.They last an extremely long time. In my student days, I would sometimes keep a set of these on my guitar for 3 - 4 months at a time and, even then, they still sounded reasonably decent.They are cheap. Currently they are about £5.50, which is by far one of the cheapest sets of strings to buy for the guitar.They have a beautiful well-balanced tone that is not overly bright or overly mellow. I find this very important. I play a Ramirez SP Spruce, which has quite a bright sound anyway, and I find these complement the guitar very well.They are easy to play. I use normal tension and I find that you don't have to press very hard to get a beautiful tone from them.They stay in tune reasonably well and settle in very quickly.

The initial experience with these D’Addarios was like cheap strings: the trebles sounded muddy and as soon as the top E was in tune, the G string was going out of it. For the first day I spent more time tuning the trebles than I did playing. During this process (the strings weren’t slipping) of seemingly laying ‘acres’ of nylon on to the rollers, the sound gained clarity.On day two there was more tuning, though the basses were better. Day 3 and the basses are pretty stable, the trebles still going flat after 5 -10 minutes or so of playing. Over the next 8 days the trebles stabilised. I was surprised this took so long.What you get is a nicely balanced classical sound – D’Addario’s claim of ‘Standard Classical Tone’ is warranted and accurate. Any critique becomes ear, style, and guitar based. I’d have liked a little more ‘beef’ on the bottom E. On a different guitar, possibly not; it’s nuanced, and D'Addario have doubtless taken a path that delivers an acceptable sound over a range of tonewoods and playing styles.These arrived on the 30th of January. I strung another guitar with a different ‘up and coming’ brand of strings (Sound like they might be from Wonderland, but come from China) on the same day, and have been playing both very regularly. It was never my intention to do a back to back test, but that’s what’s ensued. In ‘bedding in’, the Chinese strings gained overall stability before the D'Addarios: but neither set were ‘anything to write home about’.So what’s the USP of these strings? The manufacturer seems to think it’s ‘Made in the USA’. Why is that any sort of benefit compared to France? Or a Spanish / Portuguese heritage? The German tradition of engineering? Or British? A number of the ‘offers’ on the manufacturer’s web site are home market only: for example their recycling boast – is greenwashing for most of the world, and these strings, like the Chinese ones, are being shipped half way over it. I’d say the key USP was producing an acceptable, balanced, ‘benchmark’ sound over a wide range of instruments. One you can depend and rely on.How do they compare to the ‘other’ strings? There was little between the sound on the bass strings for quite some time. The D'Addarios squeaked less on slides. The Chinese strings seem equally as well balanced in tone and tension between strings over the set. The treble strings? To my ears, the D'Addarios have a little more clarity and brightness, the Chinese trebles are a slightly mellower tone. The difference is subtle, but I noticed it. Just over a month later, the Chinese bass strings have started to sound a little duller than they originally did, the D’Addarios are still sounding like new. The difference in the trebles remains, and on both sets, the treble strings are very playable.Which brings me to price. Discounted, the D'Addarios were well over twice the price of the Chinese strings. Have they ever sounded over two times better? No; and that would be an unreasonable expectation. Playability? The Chinese squeak, in my mind, gave the D'Addarios an immediate edge: the slightly more resonant response of D'Addario’s trebles is a personal preference. Longevity is going to be the key marker: D’Addario’s bass strings have, so far, shown none of the tonal degradation of the Chinese set. I’d be happy if the (subjective) playable life of the D'Addarios was twice that of the Chinese strings: because, at this point, they do sound better.

Love these!

Bought for someone else. Easy to install and tune. Comfortable to play. No conplaints

Good item good sound

Good clear tones even on an average guitar! My old Spanish guitar bought back from a parental holiday and given to me donkey's years ago has always been a bit of a poor relation in the guitars I own. When I recently bought a newer nylon-strung guitar I wondered whether I could salvage the older one even a little, since there are some more technical tunes I've written that work better on the wider neck of my older instrument.While strings alone do not make a great guitar, I'm happy to report that they lifted the guitar from below average to "not bad"!Re-stringing any instrument will make an improvement, but these have worked well on the tone, haven't affected the intonation at all and have coped with the cheap tuners I bought to replace the originals (which were even worse) well. I'm happy with the choice and will carry on using these for this particular instrument since they're well suited.

I've been meaning to do a proper test for twenty years and I finally got around to it. I sat down with two classical guitars (a bad one and a good one) and eight different sets of strings, including the pro arte ej45s and spent all day trying out all the combinations. The most noticeable differences were all on the treble strings. My good guitar has a sweet spot on the treble strings between the 7th and 12th frets. Only the ej45s and one of the cheap brands brought out the sweet spot, but the ej45s brought it out best. Also, only the ej45s gave an attractive sound on a slow slide. Therefore I am finally, completely converted - these are definitely the best strings for my style of playing. I like to play romantic, melodic stuff mainly - so 19th/20th century classical and fingerstyle jazz. I think possibly for renaissance pieces I might go for a different brand, but for melodic pieces where you really need to bring out some warmth and resonance eg Tarrega's Adelita, these strings are fantastic, on my guitar anyway. Of course, every guitar is different.... By the way, I found that on the bad guitar it didn't really matter what strings I used. But it seems like a good guitar needs good strings...