What you say of EBC products is interesting. No-one who's ever heard of them is without an opinion. Seems to be a love 'em or hate 'em thing.
Perhaps this depends upon the car to which they're fitted. I had a set of green stuff in the front of my 406 in 2005 and they were rubbish. Smoked and faded persistently. This was, however, with OEM discs and the discs were about 15,000 miles old when they were fitted.
I've never tried EBC discs and pads together, perhaps that would have helped.
Yet I'd had EBC Green stuff in the front of the Primera a couple of years earlier (again, std discs) but they performed brilliantly in that car. This was an earlier green compound (2003 was the year I fitted them).
I even fitted EBC black stuff to the rear when it was pad change time (there was no upgrade available for the rear of the Nissan at that time) and they, too, worked extremely well.
I wonder if I should have gone with Red Stuff in the 406 on account of the extra mass of the diesel engine up front.
Of course, none of this matters directly as I don't have a car at all at the moment.