Strings? Are they worth the cost?

[cdkrugjr]

You could switch to Nylon and fall down the rabbit hole of split sets, half sets, "third string is different..." and changing your trebles twice as often as your basses . . . .

[mawmow]

I do not look at price quite much, but as I have many guitars, buying bunches of string sets helps save some bucks.

[UncleJesse]

Originally Posted by ljguitar

Elixirs are a love/hate topic with acoustic guitarists. Loud/hard strumming Guitarists - especially flat pickers who play hard - will break the 3rd string on Elixirs frequently. Not a good choice for them.

As a young man in a rock n roll band playing acoustic, it stupidly took way too many gigs to realize that my constant snapping G string could have been remedied much faster by switching away from Elixirs. I ended up with many 5 string sets that went unused.