Just registered with the site, based -- like everyone else, I guess -- on the positive reviews here.
I've been using mostly Circle K strings for the last year-plus. I dig the balanced feel and the service I've gotten from Skip (including patient and detailed answers to the annoyingly long emails I sent him when making my first forays into six-string bass last year) has been great. They're also the best all-around strings I've ever had on my four-string P/J. I like the company and will continue to use them.
I also like flatwound strings -- at least, I'm finding that I like them with certain instruments, in certain applications. I have a fretless Squier P-bass that does wonders with a cheap set of Webstrings flats (first flats I ever bought -- slightly thuddy E is my only complaint) and a Brubaker Brute with Bart pickups that sings with TI jazz flats (magic on that bass) where it choked on D'Addario half rounds.
I'm looking into trying different flats with three other basses currently strung with rounds and half-rounds. When I figure out which strings to try, I'll place an order with BSO.
Is this thread a good place to ask specific questions along those lines, or is that better done in a separate thread?
