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My own preference is for Analog, I find it gives a more consistent reading experience than the other two. As to F&SF, I'd agree that the quality of writing is very high; my problem is that they tend to publish well-written stories that don't interest me that much. From my perspective F&SF may tell a story better, but Analog has better stories.
It's all about what you like to read. F&SF is very good for literary speculative fiction, but it's not so much for old-school sense of wonder SF. For that I'd go for Analog or Jim Baen's Universe. Asimovs tends to have more of a blend between the literary and sense of wonder sides-- almost an SF mainstream.
I've been reading the magazines for the last thirty years or so-- and at one time my back issue collection went back to about 1930 in some cases. There's a huge amount out there.
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