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I'm almost embarrassed to admit this but I've been running GHS Gilmour 10.5-50's lately. I was a diehard Ernie Ball guy for a long time but they just don't sound quite as bright or tight and they really seem to sound decent for a couple weeks of gigging for me.

I like Blue Steels. They seem to stay bright and full for a long time& don't seem to streach out. I don't think I ever broke one. I'm not a big string breaker anyway, but EBs always caused me problems with breaking & streatching.

Tony

I always like heavy strings. I have used D'Addario EJ-21 (12-52) strings for a long long time. They are always kick ass and sound great.

I am trying out different brands of pure nickel strings. The first to go on were D'Addario 10-45's. They sound fine. I will be also checking out Gibson, Rotosound and Fender pure nickel strings. I already tried DR Blues and was not happy with them.

I've been running Elixir 10-42's. The actually have great tone and good life length. I have 6 Gibson and only have to change strings every couple of months. If theres one or two I have not gigged with I can go 4-5 months!

I've been using E.B.reg Slinky's .010-.042's for the last 3/4 year, or so on all my guitars. Broke high E strings at one time or another during that period on my Bird, Tele and PRS.
I'm going to return to using GHS Boomers (my string preference in my misspent youth) in the same gauge as the reg Slinkys.

I've always used D'Addarios. Haven't done a lot of comparing so I don't know if they're the best. They just work well for me, and always have. I'm using 10-42's on my new bird. Same as on my other electrics. The bird came with Gibson strings. They sounded good but I didn't like the gauges or the winding job so I changed them. Great guitar.