acustic bass guitar strings

Hello to everyone! I am glad to write my primer post. And this is to ask, is the Acustic bass Ibanez AEB5E a good one? It costs $250 brand bew. About me, I am an begginer intemediate bassist, I have had only one bass in my life which was the electric LTD B10 What I want is an well made...

I asked this question over in the Bass section as a reply to another post. I hope it's ok to ask here as well. I'm picking up a Thundercheif next week and I have a question for those of you who have owned them. What strings worked best for you? This is my first ABG so I'm starting from scratch...