Best gold plated strings?

[FinlessPorpoise]

Hi everyone! I finally have the Internet again so I'm having great fun catching up on everything here!
I've been wanting to put gold strings on my 4004cii for ages, but I want them to be round wounds and great sounding, and hopefully the kind that will last a while.
I have no idea what's on there at the moment, probably just Ernie balls or something similar.
Can anyone reccomend some and let me know where I can get them (Internet would be best as I don't think many stores here would stock them).
Do you think that they are worth the extra cost?
Thanks so much.

 

[ghostrider]

No they're definitely not worth it.

 

[bassyogi]

Aurora has gold colored strings. I think their site is stringsbyaurora.com. Around $36 I think

 

[SLaPiNFuNK]

For electric...

D'Addario has EXP Reds which are copper plated steel and EXP coated.

 

[darkstorm]

Only known of one company to even try gold plated strings. Dont remember their name. They bombed. Too expenswive and nothing to write home about tone wise. Gold is a very soft metal.

 

[SLaPiNFuNK]

(gold is also not magnetic)...

 

[FunkMetalBass]

Dean Markley made a set of gold stainless rounds called Alchemy. I don't think they're still in production, but I believe I have an unopened 4-string set of them if you're interested.