Never understood the whole strat thing. I don't think fender or gibson make them like they used to unless you want to dump a butt load of money and for me it's hard to pass on an old less paul or a nice sg-62, But as for me I'll keep my prs. It's the only guitar I've ever had that I could get anything from cruchy metal to thin strat blues sound.
that being said, I did play a strat that was supposed to be around a $4000.00 guitar. It had the hip shot wammy and was in general a very nice guitar. I'd love to have it but not for 4K.
Later
f.S.