For sale Spector Euro 5 Early 2000's

japhy4529 · Jul 28, 2023

kbakerde said:
For Sale is my gorgeous Spector Euro 5 LX 5-String Bass. Recently picked this up, and it's an absolutely wonderful guitar. Bass is well balanced and comfortable to hold or wear with a strap. The Neck through design gives the sound a tremendous amount of punch and sustain while the EMG Pickups and Tonepump Preamp are very flexible and sound excellent. With all controls dimed, the sound is absolutely massive and huge. Very clear and detailed but with a huge bottom end. But turning the preamp all the way down and with the volumes at around 50% gives you a more traditional passive like tone. Add a little treble for some zing, or bass for more oomph.

The Spector is in extremely good condition for a bass that is 20 years old. I am not 100% certain of the year, but believe it to be a 2001-2003 Euro LX 5. There is some swirling you'd expect from age, but very few if any nicks or scratches. The bass has been well maintained. The Brass nut and Brass bridge really add to the punchy clear bass sound this can deliver in spades.

Pricing this to move, $1899 Shipped
CONUS only
No Trades please, but DM me with any questions. Thank you for looking

About this bass/Specs

Model: Euro LX 5

Color: Black Cherry

Body: Maple With Alder/Flamed Maple Wings

Neck: Maple

Fretboard: Rosewood

Pickups: EMG 40HZ

Preamp: Spector Tonepump (non-trim pot)

Controls: Vol-Vol-Treb-Bass

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Sweet bass! GLWTS! By the way, those are solid, flame maple body wings.

Jason Bonilla · Jul 28, 2023

nothing like a red Spector with Gold hardware. GLWTS

r_bnks · Jul 28, 2023

Cool solid maple Spector. It's an Euro 5 not LX. LX is still produced and it has alder-walnut-maple sandwich body.

ianpablo · Jul 28, 2023

gorgeous! is this 35' scale?

kbakerde · Jul 28, 2023

ianpablo said:
gorgeous! is this 35' scale?

Correct.

kbakerde · Jul 28, 2023

japhy4529 said:
Sweet bass! GLWTS! By the way, those are solid, flame maple body wings.

r_bnks said:
Cool solid maple Spector. It's an Euro 5 not LX. LX is still produced and it has alder-walnut-maple sandwich body.

Thank you both. Listing has been corrected.

MoonDoggy · Jul 29, 2023

You's guys should realize what a unicorn this beast is. The 35" scale with the solid figured maple wings and crown inlays was only made for 1-2 years. Prior to that, they were 34" scale with dot inlays. And after this, they were the 35" Euros with cheaper alder backs. As far as I know, the only difference between these particular NSCRFMs and the US-made basses at the time were the factory they were made in, the preamps, and the metals used in the bridge (solid brass vs other alloy).

lalo_garcia-maynez · Aug 2, 2023

MoonDoggy said:
You's guys should realize what a unicorn this beast is. The 35" scale with the solid figured maple wings and crown inlays was only made for 1-2 years. Prior to that, they were 34" scale with dot inlays. And after this, they were the 35" Euros with cheaper alder backs. As far as I know, the only difference between these particular NSCRFMs and the US-made basses at the time were the factory they were made in, the preamps, and the metals used in the bridge (solid brass vs other alloy).

Almost all correct with your comparison ! The bridges are sonically identical (both made of brass but the USA bridge a little bit more square in shape and with a more shinny gold finish ). The fingerboard for the European basses was rosewood vs Pau Ferro for the USA .
And of course the preamp at the time was Haz lab 18 volts (3 knobs) for the USA models and usually Aguilar OBP-1 or EMG for the European models . But you are correct ! These basses are an amazing deal and the sound is almost identical to the top of the line USA models of the same era .

FRoss6788 · Aug 7, 2023

I believe the pickups here are EMG 40 DC's, not the passive HZ's. The Hz's were only on the Legend series IIRC.

Beautiful bass! GLWTS.

spector_boogie · Aug 8, 2023

I had one of these in an orange finish... absolutely amazing instruments. "They don't make 'em like they used to" certainly applies here!! GLWS, that's a beauty. Wish I was in the market!

spector_boogie · Aug 8, 2023

MoonDoggy said:
You's guys should realize what a unicorn this beast is. The 35" scale with the solid figured maple wings and crown inlays was only made for 1-2 years. Prior to that, they were 34" scale with dot inlays. And after this, they were the 35" Euros with cheaper alder backs. As far as I know, the only difference between these particular NSCRFMs and the US-made basses at the time were the factory they were made in, the preamps, and the metals used in the bridge (solid brass vs other alloy).

I'd agree with this, as someone who gigged a late 90s NS5 for some time. They really were nearly identical. Dang, this is bringing me back to my college cover band days lol... want to throw some Barts in and get after it.

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