My wife got me one as a house warming present back in 2013. It looks and plays and sounds amazing! It’s one of those rare basses you never get rid of!! The neck is the best feeling Nick I’ve ever played!
Mine was great out of the box! The only thing I did was replace the nut because I use LaBella nylon tapewound strings and the nut couldn’t accommodate them. I did a show last weekend with hear and she sounded fantastic!
I put LaBella Deep Talkin Black Nylon 750N strings on mine and it brought an amazing tone to my bass! Roll the tone how you like and you can get wooly warm tones to sweet nite good enough for slap. Plus the added bonus of no fret wear!!