re: What acoustic guitar strings do you like and why?

D'Addario EJ19 Phosphor Bronze, 12-56 they are light tops and medium bottoms. Use to use Exlir (both nano and standard) but my fingers don't eat up strings like some people's so didn't see a reason to stay with them. D'Addario 38's on a 12 string.

Those middle bottoms on the cedar top (DY62c) pumps up it's mellow sound with a more rounded richness. And the 19's on the DY57 (D16 clone) makes my Martin friends shake their heads with how quick it jumps out with an even more bottom-end full sound. They really make it jump out - but can be too boomy (even muddy) if over played and not quite as balanced (but I don't beat up or overplay all that often). I like them better than the more popular EJ16's.