[quote name='73Jazz' post='1139081' date='Feb 23 2011, 08:13 PM']yes they improved.
i played on a bass 2 years ago, which had elixirs on it..i hated them. The coating was some kind of dim/grey and the strings seemd to be some kind of adhesive.
1 month ago i had some really good strings on a bass i played, i was surprised, they were really good and i didn`t know them..the bass owner told me that these were elixirs.
If i remember right..the first ones were called polyweb and the newr ones nanoweb..[/quote]
Correct. In fact they still do polyweb as an option on their acoustic guitar strings, but all electric (guitar and bass) strings are now exclusively nanoweb which is a thinner less obvious coating that's just as effective, if not more so. Although this change was a lot longer than 3 months ago, so I suspect if what PaulWarning says is right, they may have improved them since they've been nanoweb.