Believe me that i know this.I have use them few years now.Best quality without compromise.The strings I have used more than any others are Dean Markley "Blue Steel" strings. They are consistently true and well manufactured, and I have never, not even once, had dead string in a set. I also . . . ahem . . . have never had a set of Markley "Blue Steel" strings come up "short", if you get my drift.
They are great strings . . . they just don't make the application I am looking for, for this bass guitar. Thus, www.darkhorsestrings.com