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02-16-2010, 06:50 PM
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Hi people!
I wanna know if we can discern the real D'addario and the fake D'addario without trying them???
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02-16-2010, 06:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Blackshear, Georgia | | | Coloured ball ends? If someone was to fake it, i'd probably check that. But if it sounded good, who cares?
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02-16-2010, 06:57 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: NYC | | | There are fake D'Addario's? |
02-16-2010, 07:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Tulsa | | | I was just about to ask the same thing as pasta4lnch
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02-16-2010, 07:10 PM
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02-16-2010, 07:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Boston | | | Maybe the OP's thinking of DR and D'Addario... |
02-16-2010, 08:06 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Marco Bass Guitars | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Wylie (D/FW), TX | | Here's a PDF copy of a Flier from D'addario about counterfeit strings... http://www.daddario.com/upload/DABR_...wRes_12587.pdf
I guess it's big enough of a problem they came out with something like that. |
02-16-2010, 09:29 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Upstate, South Carolina | | | Fake Asian strings are one reason Ernie Ball recently changed their packaging. Must be some money in it... |
02-16-2010, 10:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: NYC | | | I stand corrected . . . I guess buying from a reputable dealer. Seeing a guy selling 20 packs of strings on ebay for $40 is probably gonna be bogus. |
02-16-2010, 10:56 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Genz Benz Amplification | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Nashville | | | There are loads of fake Shure SM57's on ebay. I guess it's the same with strings. |
02-17-2010, 02:59 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Hanoi, Vietnam | | Quote:
Originally Posted by CBgaragebassist Coloured ball ends? If someone was to fake it, i'd probably check that. But if it sounded good, who cares? | it doesn't sound good for long.
Actually, sbd told me that but I've never know the D'addarios I've bought is fake or not :d
But about years ago, my friend booked so many D'addario Classical String and when they arrived, he told me that they were fake, and sound like sh*t 
That's the Classical Strings, sth like that may happened to the Bass string.
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02-17-2010, 03:12 PM
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I have heard about this. I go through the XL's fast,change them about every two weeks on my main Jazz. I have not come across any "fake" D'Addario strings yet,but I buy from the big stores....Sam Ash and Guitar Center. Yea,I'm sure there must be some money in it if they are counterfeiting strings  |
02-17-2010, 04:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Lakeside, CA | | | I never knew there were counterfeit strings. Good to know especially since I use D'Addario. Thanks for the thread fat boy.
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02-17-2010, 05:13 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Portland, Oregon | | | Interesting- I wonder if the old strings that were sold for awhile as Hartke strings were related. They had the same colored ball ends as D'addario, but came in clear plastic sleeves and often no brand labeling. I had heard some rumors that they were D'addario "seconds", but that always seemed a little weird to me...I actually bought them for a little while because they were super cheap and sounded more or less the same to me as XLs, but XLs were never my string of choice anyway...
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02-17-2010, 08:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Hanoi, Vietnam | | | anyway, we have to try to know that...lol
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12-06-2010, 06:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Metro D.C. and Brooklyn, NY | | Interesting, this seems to be rather old, but I just heard about this on the News today!
Chinese knock-offs being sold for a lot less online. D'addario is trying to fight this really hard, even got out Senator involved http://schumer.senate.gov/new_websit....cfm?id=328862
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12-06-2010, 06:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Upstate, South Carolina | | | I think counterfeit strings is one reason why Ernie Ball changed their packaging. |
12-06-2010, 06:57 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Canada | | | This is the first I hear of this. Good to know.
My suggestion would be to buy from a reputable dealer as well. If the price is too good to be true, it probably is!
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12-06-2010, 06:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Metro D.C. and Brooklyn, NY | | | maybe we should make this a "sticky" since a LOT of TB-ers use D'Addario strings, myself included....
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12-06-2010, 07:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: SF Bay Area North CA | | | Fake string, gee, the fake artists are now operating with really tiny profit margins... | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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