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Old 06-23-2018, 03:06 PM
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Can someone tell me what strings the X20 arrives with? I had a quick poke around here but didn't find the answer, and I couldn't find it on their website either...
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Old 06-23-2018, 05:58 PM
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D'addario came on mine, sorry, I don't remember the model #, they sounded pretty good, but hurt my fingers. Shoot Emerald an email, they will be glad to tell you.
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D'addario came on mine, sorry, I don't remember the model #, they sounded pretty good, but hurt my fingers. Shoot Emerald an email, they will be glad to tell you.
I'll certainly do that - but they're closed for the weekend, and INSTANT GRATIFICATION is so, you know, compelling...

I wasn't a huge fan of D'Addario acoustic strings until the nickel-bronze variant came along. That's what I'll try first after I've used up the set it comes with.
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I think mine had EJ16’s on it? I tried Elixir PB lights and in the end installed SCGC parabolic low tension strings that sounded great to me. The neck shape caused me some pain in my fretting hand, so Earl has it now and recently told me the strings were still going strong many months later, fwiw.
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And the answer, from Emerald, is D'Addario EXP 12s. Maybe I'll like them more on the X20
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When I asked the factory last year they said EJ-16s
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Both my X20 and X7 came with D'Addario EXP's.
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I've been using the ernie ball aluminum bronze and love it. Saw someone recommend it before on an old thread.

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When I received my X20 in Jan 2017 it came with this D'Addario tag






I've saved all emails I received from Emerald,
and when I asked about the strings being shipped with my X7 & X20
this was the response I received on 11/24/16.

The gauges we put on the X7 are .012, .016, .026, .036, .046, .056
The strings on the X20 used are D'Addario EXP 11.

I don't have the string tag that came with my X7.
I thought it was a D'Addario EXP also,
but the string gauges .012, .016, .026, .036, .046, .056
don't seem to match any EXP string sets.
Maybe Emerald purchase individual gauges in bulk instead of string sets ?
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Old 07-05-2018, 04:42 AM
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The strings on the X20 used are D'Addario EXP 11.
Which is why I promptly changed them (after a few months use of course) when I got my X20 from 2013.
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