Depends on your setup really; the obvious advantages is the low noise floor and low impedence which means you can run a longer cables. If you play with quite a saturated, effected sound, or with a rack setup, they work really well. As others have said, they tend to sound the same regardless of the guitar they're in and they are fantastic metal pickups. All a matter of taste I guess, but they're not my first choice when I want to play through a small valve combo and play some bluuuuuz