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Elixers
I learned from an enthusiastic sales guy at GC that elixer strings are coated so as to extend the string life by mitigating oxidation or what ever. I tried the strings out. To my ear the coating took the life out of the strings compared to the D'Addarios I was using.
That said we bought a nice Taylor 214 for a friend who lost everything in the Tubbs fire. So I had this Taylor in my posession for a week and a half. It had an old set of elixers I'm pretty sure and they sounded wonderful. So who knows? I just bought a 2006 414 ce on ebay that is why I'm here ranting. Can't wait for some pandemic relief with a real guitar. |
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Back on topic, the 2006 414 will be X-braced and any new one will be V-braced. You can do your own reading on that, but my choice would be X-bracing. Also the 2006 version will likely have ES1.3 (three knobs, 9V battery) which is the best sounding of all the factory Taylor pickups, IMO. I'm not a fan of ES2 here...... Elixir strings are put on Taylor's to keep strings fresher for longer in a retail environment, bot necessarily because they sound "better". And 53-12 light gauge is the norm. They were even sold for a while with mediums (56-13) but Taylor has gone back to lights. My 414 wore mediums for a significant portion of its life with me, and suffered no harm. |