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Best bass

#101
Well, the Two Fingers signature Jerkweasle, is obvs the best... a doi.
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#102
Gorn said:
I have too much respect for you to believe that you believe that you're being serious.
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Gorn, I agree and feel exactly the same way... right up until that statement.

I have very little respect for anyone who would ask such a broad and obscure question as "What is the best bass?" and then choose one answer to altogether shut down saying their choice is "terrible" and "under-whelming". So you were "under-whelmed" by a 'Ray. So what? 99 other people out of a hundred think it's a great bass.

Then the same person discredits a question about the best color by saying colors have no qualitative characteristics when others can clearly see the cool qualities in blue, the fresh qualities in green, the passionate qualities in red and the calming, joyful qualities of yellow (which is also, apparently, the best bass). And much like the warmth of mahogany, the smoothness of walnut, the precision snap of maple, all these things... ALL of them... are entirely subjective.

I owned an Alembic. It was a birthday gift from an ex's father. I traded it for a 4x10 and a horn cab and $450 just to get rid of it. Worst deal I ever made in my life. I've got a Jazz that I made myself. Ash body, wenge neck/fretboard, passive electronics with cloth shielded vintage wire and I'd rather have it 10:1. Would I rather have BOTH? Heck yes! But given the choice between the two, I'd rather have my jazz because it speaks to me. I love to play it. Sound engineers love it. Is it higher quality or worth more on the resale market than the Alembic? God, no. But it's better for me.

You are one of three things:

1. A very immature player/person asking a completely ridiculous question that should have taken the hint when everyone started saying, "This question has no answer."
2. A troll trying to get a snowball rolling out of control by asking the most ridiculous question you can think of for this forum.
3. Andy Kaufmann, and this is the funniest goof since you faked your death in '84.
 
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#103
d-dave said:
Gorn, I agree and feel exactly the same way... right up until that statement.

I have very little respect for anyone who would ask such a broad and obscure question as "What is the best bass?" and then choose one answer to altogether shut down saying their choice is "terrible" and "under-whelming". So you were "under-whelmed" by a 'Ray. So what? 99 other people out of a hundred think it's a great bass.

Then the same person discredits a question about the best color by saying colors have no qualitative characteristics when others can clearly see the cool qualities in blue, the fresh qualities in green, the passionate qualities in red and the calming, joyful qualities of yellow (which is also, apparently, the best bass). And much like the warmth of mahogany, the smoothness of walnut, the precision snap of maple, all these things... ALL of them... are entirely subjective.

I owned an Alembic. It was a birthday gift from an ex's father. I traded it for a 4x10 and a horn cab and $450 just to get rid of it. Worst deal I ever made in my life. I've got a Jazz that I made myself. Ash body, wenge neck/fretboard, passive electronics with cloth shielded vintage wire and I'd rather have it 10:1. Would I rather have BOTH? Heck yes! But given the choice between the two, I'd rather have my jazz because it speaks to me. I love to play it. Sound engineers love it. Is it higher quality or worth more on the resale market than the Alembic? God, no. But it's better for me.

You are one of three things:

1. A very immature player/person asking a completely ridiculous question that should have taken the hint with everyone started saying, "This question has no answer."
2. A troll trying to get a snowball rolling out of control by asking the most ridiculous question you can think of.
3. Andy Kaufmann, and this is the funniest goof since you faked your death in '84.
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I said it because the OP can write well, which makes me doubt she's asking the question seriously.
 
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#116
Lowness said:
Hi

I am curious: what is considered to be the best bass?

.....and I am not referring to personal preference for personal circumstance; more, what is objectively considered the best bass (regardless of budget).

Fodera? Sadowsky?

Cheers
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I don't think you can come up with some objective way to determine that. I mean, clearly a 100 dollar Squier isn't going to have some objectively good qualities a 2000 dollar boutique instrument will have, however is an Alembic better than a Xotic? I don't know.

Everyone is also different. My hands, arms, shoulders and back are structured differently than yours are, and I learned bass in a different way than you did. What is comfortable for me may not be comfortable for you.

I'd say you can use new price to kind of determine where an instrument falls, but it's a really rough estimate. People can be convinced to pay a premium for a brand or feature for example. In fact that's pretty much how capitalism works. You can charge whatever you can convince people to pay, it doesn't matter what intrinsic value your product has necessarily.

Look at Apple products, are they really that much better than other PCs? They're made in the same place, made of similar parts, and cost about the same to make. People are still willing to pay a premium for the Apple products in spite of them not really being that different functionally or feature-wise.
 
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