These are my current strings of choice - they give the phosphor bronze tone that I like from the D'addarios I liked coupled with the smooth feel that I've grown to like. It's really nifty for reducing finger squeak for recording and somehow I find that I can play slightly faster on strings with this kind of smooth feel.
These strings are still brighter than the D'addarios .. maybe 6.5 on the treble knob if the D'addarios are 5. The brightness gives it a somewhat modern sound. Antoine Dufour uses these strings and you can tell from his recordings that they sound really bright. Of course, I think he mixes in some of the magnetic pickup into the mic-ed signal to achieve his modern-sque acoustic percussive groove-based playing tone.
Have mine strung on my Timothy S10J for about a month now, and it still sounds good. Now it is slightly less bright than when I first strung them on, but still it's plenty bright.
Oh, I think Brendon from http://www.bgwguitars.com/ in Singapore has the best price for Elixir strings.
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