Cs Relic Pups!

the greyback would be 65
they are wound a bit more than the 56 or 60

the 60 are my favorites, very balanced,
not too dark, not too bright, great quack, great tone

56 and 65 darker than 60

I still have the 60's in one of my relics
all other have Fralins - Vintage Hots, and Real 54s
I like the Blue Specials, but not as much as the others
I also have a custom wound set from Fralin, which I like very much

Lollar Blondes have a good thing going for them, depends what
tone you are looking

 

Same experience as Rick. The black bottomed pickups in my '60 Relic are the only stock Strat pups still in their original guitar. '69s would be my second choice from the CS offerings, though I'm pretty fond of fitting SD Antiquity Surfers to most of my other Strats (including CS '66 and '56 Ash.) The Surfers are very close in tone to the '60 pups, and as they're aged, they fit in nicely with the relic look.

 

In my experience, pickups can sound very different from guitar to guitar. A few years ago, I had the exact same set in 5 different Strats I had at the time and they sounded great in one particular Strat, crappy in another, and so-so in the remaining 3. So, based on my experiments, I'd say you'd just have to try different pickups in your Strat to see whether or not there's any subjective improvement. Like building a parts-o-caster, IMO pickup swapping is a bit of a tonal crap shoot because of how they interact with an individual piece of wood.