Are Blue Steels still good?

Jack Casady still endorses them.

 

Jack gets them for free. I've heard that DM's have changed since they moved production. I used to use their standard nickels and they were great but lately I've been running EB's on everything except my acoustic guitar.

 

I put some on at the beginning of September & TBH at first I hated them!
It was a loud, boomy mess, not very musical sounding.

After about 2 days they broke in, I suppose, & sounded great.

 

I tried them for the first time a few months ago and am very impressed with them.

 

I've heard more complaints about Dean Markley since they stopped winding their own strings.

One interesting recent development is a company called Apex Strings, which apparently was started up by people who used to work for Dean Markley as string experts.

You might want to check out a couple of the recent threads about Apex:

APEX BASS STRINGS

Apex Strings - First Impressions w/ Audio

 

I have played Blue Steels since they were released. And they are not even close in tone, life, or feel. Just run and run fast. Better choices out there. For me so far it has been GHS super steel.