IME, this kind of thing is absolutely commonplace in TalkBass evaluation & review threads in general: There is no shortage of opinions about what works well (or badly) with what. But there is a great dearth of insight as to the reasons why.
Or what "works well" even means. That may be what you meant, but my point is ...
if you want to talk about Thomastik-Infeld Jazz Flats, and all you can say is they're
the best -- you don't have to recount all the different strings you've tried, and the many years over which you've come to this conclusion. If all you can tell us is that they're
the best, you're just talking to yourself, and you don't need to waste any more time on it than you want to.
What you're saying is essentially "if you want to sound like me, use these strings!" And of course that might make sense in the exceptional case where you're a well known bass player who some of us might want to emulate.
The odds are really much better that I don't want to sound like you (and
vice versa.) Not because you're a loser, but we play different styles of music and have a totally different "sound concept" if you will.
Most strings out there are great for someone, especially you know this for sure if they've been on the market for a long time. Someone's buying them. If I want to hear from the people who are buying them, it's not to find out that they exist - we already inferred that - but what they're doing with the strings, what they sound like, feel like, etc. (And of course it's much more useful if you happen to know not just the brand, but what gauge and scale.)
