My recent purchase with Strings by Mail offers sets that say New Nylgut on the packaging. They where Tan in color and also sounded great. I believe that the Super Nylguts where an all Nylgut set made from a new formula that stretched up fast and stayed there. They took several days to settle in but the sounded great. The original strings and the earlier sets with the wound string tended to stretch. This is the reason for only a 4 star rating. I did not know exactly what would be in the packages that I ordered and the retailer couldn't tell me for sure either. Some packages say Super Nylgut, some say New Nylgut and some just indicated as Classic.
There is some confusion, which I could not get answers about, with packaging and string type. Since that time the packaging and formula has changed a few times but with little or no support from Aquila to educate consumers or retailers about the changes. They then came out with an all Nylgut set, which solved the 4th string issue. Those sounded great but the wound string wore out very quickly. I started using them when they still came packaged with a wound 4th string, some time ago.
I do instrument repairs and have found the all Nylgut Aquila string sets to be an excellent match up for vintage, spun over pot banjos.
I have been a fan of Aquila strings for some time.
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