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Originally Posted by Jay Dee  Take a magnifying glass some time and look closely at those coated strings after a couple of months of solid playing... see how the plastic gets frayed and fuzzy. Wonder what that's doing to your tone? Hmmm. |
Play some regular strings for that long and see how they look under a magnifying glass. And we already know how they would sound after being played for that long: dull with poor intonation.
There's no free lunch here. If you want to have a very short period of great tone, and are willing to change strings very frequently, then use regular strings. If you want the tone to be a bit more mellow, and have that tone last longer, use coated strings. Play any sort of string for long enough and the intonation will go sour due to the strings being dented by the frets.