[darkbluemurder]

Maybe I just haven't found the right guitar for it yet, but the AT-1 bores me to tears.

I hear you as I have moved mine from guitar to guitar until I think I found a good home for it (for now....)

I installed Duncan Classic Strat Plus's in for somebody. I wasn't that impressed. A bit dissapointing. They seemed to lack responsiveness to picking dynamics. They were good if you switched off the noiseless. There's a reason the Dimarzio Area series have become the industrty standard for noiseless SCs, I guess.

When the Classic and Hot Stacks came out in the 80s I had one of each. While they had healthier outputs than the HS-x series of DiMarzio, to me they did not sound anything like true single coils. The OBL ("Original Bill Lawrence") L 250 series also missed that mark IMHO.

Cheers Stephan

[darkbluemurder]

Speaking of the HS-X series, DiMarzio was on the right way as regards the tone. However, they were so quiet, and not only in noise ...

Same for the Shock Wave pickups (long discontinued). I understand why they came with a preamp as they were just as quiet as the HS-X series.

[HeyNorton!]

I was not impressed with the transition neck in the neck position.  It felt stiff, with thin highs while also being warm.  Yep warm and thin up top, and a lot of low mids to over emphasize that warm high end. 

The bridge (which i really like) is more high mids,  so adjusting the eq for 1 messes with the other.