Older noiseless pickups were somehow not OK for me. They were alwasy sounding artifical. It wasn't a proper single coil sound it supposed to be on a stratocaster. When I use a guitar pickup that has no noise , it always also sweeps the juice of the tone and makes it lifeless.. It seems Fender finally achieved the treshold of creating a proper singlecoil sound with 'less' noise. These pickups has the character, vibe and tone of a proper stratocaster, they don't lack of bass, yet they dont have hum noise, they have great high end, which is not artifical anymore like older noiseless pickup versions. Good amount of mids to EQ around on your amp or pedal. I %100 believe any older tex-mex, hot-rod or pickup users will gonna like and approve this pickups. Whereas there's another version of this pickup, which has a higher output, may not be the first choice of a traditional stratocaster player IMO. It's not same as this one. Yes a little bit pricey, but it worths! Highly recomenned!
(PS) the pickups are deeper than the regular stratocaster pickups, You may need to do re-routing in your pickup cavities. So pay attention to the depth of your guitars body. My stratocasters body wood depth is 45cm and it was no issue )
