I'd be interested to know if those of you who have changed up or down in string gauges have thought their Burns sounded slightly or hugely different. It can be frustrating to increase gauge, maybe involving modifying the nut to accommodate the heavier strings, faff with springs etc only to find the guitar sounds virtually the same afterwards! Definitely a 'doh!' moment . . .
I did change from 10s to 11s on my strat and really couldn't hear much variation in tone, if any, but maybe if I'd upped them to 12s I would have? I later reverted to D'Addario 10s for their playability.
I currently have Ernie Ball 10s on the Burns with a wound third - the problem of a wound third being slightly quieter resulted, but I've adjusted my playing style to accommodate this volume variation and it's not as obviously quieter as when I tried a similar trick on the strat fitted with 57/62s. Not so easy to bend, of course, but a gentler, smoother sound in my opinion as I've always thought the plain third to be overly strident on the Burns, unlike the strat.
Cheers,
Martyn