I am playing guitars since late 70's. And I played a lot of different ones (from very cheap to very expensive and custom guitars).
For years I was praying Gotoh tuners for enormously smooth action and precision. And I was using them on most of guitars I had.
Everything changed when I started using Planet Waves PWAT tuners. They are absolute winners!
If you are gigging guitarist, or session guitarist and you have to change strings in few guitars every day, you will really love those tuners. They not only very precise and smooth, but they are really guitarist friendly. Mechanism cutting the string ends automatically is fantastic invention.
I put Planet Waves PWAT on six guitars now, and I am absolutely in love with them. Does not matter, if you use tremolo or not, they are still great tuners and huge time savers.
Now - if you are star and have your technician - you will probably pay no attention, as restringing is not your job. But, if you are professional, who has to change string on many guitars every day - go for those tuners. Staying in tune, looking good and saving a lot of time while restringing.
I fully recommend them.
PS
I heard once "they look cheap", but the person could not explain me why ;-)
