My experience so far with these strings has been very good. I put them on my ESP LTD-EC10 and they really made the guitar sound better. It sounds more like an expensive guitar now. I have tried Ernie Ball regulars and D'Addario lights. Both of those are good strings and I liked them both for different reasons. However these Gibson Vintage reissue take it to another level. My guitar sounds more full bodied, and beefy. Crisp and in stays in tune better than the other strings. The nickel wound strings are better than other nickel wound strings I have used, including the ones mentioned above. Gibson has a technique that is unique to their strings. I think it makes them a better string.  They feel really good on the fingers. People say these strings last a long time and time will tell for me about that. I snapped a 1st string (E) right away when tightening it with my locking mini Grover tuners. It broke right at the tuner. But that was the tuners fault (or mine) not the string. I am going to order a couple more sets of these as I think they will be my go to string from now on. I like em. My wife noticed the difference in sound right away.