Fender Custom 69 Strat PU Set

... slightly mixed experience of buying with Thomann.

The pickups are everything I imagined and more now they are in and working, love them: )

This was the first time I had bought from Thomann and it took 3 deliveries before I was satisfied.

1st delivery: You can imagine a pickup box isn't big however they were sent in a much larger box than needed with no additional packing. Outer box looked OK on delivery but when opened I was less impressed. Outer cardboard sleeve torn and hinges missing on plastic box (but not in the packaging), I'd say they had been returned by a previous customer. Pickups returned to Thomann.

2nd set: Received a week later, still in oversized box without padding/bubble wrap. Seemed fine, installed but one of the pickups was dead (tested with multi-meter), wiring seemed fine must have been a break in the wind. Pickups returned to Thomann.

3rd set: Received a week later, specialist team had sorted the order and was well packaged. Pickups installed and very happy.

Like I say mixed feelings, I feel packaging should be improved not just for special attention orders. Thomann replaced without quibble, though I provided decent evidence to support returns. Got there eventually took around 3 weeks normally you'd expect it in one week.

I will buy again from Thomann as they offer good value. I'd like to see improved packaging but can't complain about their returns policy.

These have an absolutely fantastic tone! Coming from regular stock USA pickups, Lace Sensors, Dimarzio Areas and Haussel pickups, these were absolutely THE tone I'd heard on countless records and imagined in my mind when I thought about what a Strat should play and feel like. The middle pickup isn't reverse wound so positions 2 and 4 hum as well... had plenty of problems with that in the studio.

If you can't handle the hum, get an Ilitch noisecancelling backplate - loses the hum and retains that elusive high frequency sweetness that the Areas, Lace Sensors and regular Fender Noiseless pickups lack.

I bought these to put them into my new stratocaster which I built myself. So after I finished putting the parts together I pluged the guitar in and was amazed.
The sound is just what you would exspect bright treble, velvety middle- and light bass sounds. What impressed me most was how the pickups directly accept what you are playing. So playing with these pickups is a lot more fun than with my other strats because it is a more immidiate playing experience. Cheaper stratocaster guitars with cheaper pickups sound like you covered the pickups with blankets compared to these here. I´d say try them out and convince yourself!

I replaced the pickups from my 2019 Player Stratocaster with those pickups. There's nothing wrong with the Player pickups, but I was never quite happy with the neck pickup. Compared to the Player's pickups, there's more punch and more clarity, especially in the neck position. They have slightly lower output, especially in the bridge, but it's not a huge difference.
They are pricey but it is definitely a good upgrade to an already great guitar.
Unfortunately it took 3 deliveries to get a set of 3 working pickups. The first two times one of the pickups was dead (infinite resistance when measured), so I had to take one star off the rating for bad QC.