I agree with L, James and I have talked about this before and the normal to lower range impedance p/u's seem to be a key factor in getting good tone, when you think about all the great albums of the 50's,60's& 70's, those recordings were made with stock pick-ups,, into the 80's when hotter p/u's became the rage it seems like tone started getting more sterile sounding, I have a Dimarzio MegaDrive in a strat body, that really is only good for that 80's kind of sound, it just doesn't have that mid range body, I guess Seth and Leo knew what they were doing back in the 50's...