My SPECTOR Legend 4 & all my others sound AWESOME thru my Ampeg B-15T flip-top 100W. (Perfect for small-Med.gigs!) or my light weight Ampeg PF-500 & PR-410HLF. I receive a lot of compliments every where that I play with either rig. But most importantly pleasing to my ears! A week ago I was playing at a gig with 400+ attending. The soundboard guy was having trouble getting me thru the house speakers. Afterwards he told me that he never did get me thru the house, but, he said that Ampeg B-15T is enormous sonically! It filled the place! And I only had the master on 3 1/2! A 15" speaker will not only carry your sound thru the drums/mix but if you decide to go 5 string later on it'll handle the low frequency of the B string. Good luck!Ripley said:Hey, everyone! Loving my Legend, so far, but looking for some advice from longtime Spector players.
Second topic: I'm considering an amp upgrade on a limited budget. Any thoughts on Genz Shuttle 6 or Markbass LMIII or GK MB500? I have a GK MB200, which is fine with PA, but we often practice in a club and I just can't hear myself with the MB200 and a 2x10. I don't want to blow anyone's hair back, but it would be nice to hear myself through the drums when we're running limited sound. Any amps that show the Spector love? Basic happy-sexy-fun-time bar band classic rock and pop.
Third topic: How was your day, man? I hope it was awesome!
Oh...I had an absolutely AWESOME day Thank you!!!
Grasshopper said those aren't in stock anymore...as I was calling on the demo but is gone...fretless_guy said:Why so long? They show at least two in stock on their website.

Thanks Phat! Good to know.PhatBasstard said:Almost forgot...
Talked to them. This is a refin and they're not sure what CR series as any serial (unless stamped in the cavity) has been painted over.
JPSBassist said:The NS-Body is the curved body design that SPECTOR is best known for. In 1976 Ned Steinberger, a furniture and cabinet maker who shared space with Stuart Spector in the Brooklyn Woodworkers Cooperative, became interested in designing a bass guitar for Stuart.
Ned had been working to build curved furniture, using wood's naturally organic shapes to create furniture that was rounded and not squared. When Stuart damaged the neck on a SPECTOR SB-1 bass, the first commercial bass made by Spector Guitars, Ned asked if he could have the ruined body to "build you a new bass design". Stuart handed it to him and said, "Be my guest".
Ned, who is not a musician, looked at the instrument from a purely functional viewpoint. He shaved down the bulbous SB-1 Body and contoured it. Using blocks of wood like what is used in a butcher's block, he kept the SB-1's horn shape and little else.
A week later he returned to Stuart with the NS-Body prototype.
The NS-1 (NS standing for Ned Steinberger) went into production in 1977 and made history.
It was Ned's first instrument design. Not being a musician or having played bass guitar before, it was like someone who had never seen or played baseball before walking into Yankee Stadium and hitting a home-run out of the park with their very first time at bat.
Ned would go on to deconstruct the modern electric bass and guitar and give us the headless Steinberger bass a couple of years later. All of this because of his friendship with Stuart. The two remain close friends to this day... as a matter of fact all of NS-Design's classical/electric instruments are made at the SPECTOR Czech factory... they share the factory together.
All of this happened before Hans Peter Wilfer started Warwick in 1982.
Funny, but Hans has always had a love of Ned Steinberger's work. The very first Warwick was a copy of Ned's famous headless bass...
From there he moved to his most commercially successful design... a complete, identical copy of the SPECTOR NS-Body bass... Warwick called this bass the "Streamer".
It was such a complete knock-off/clone of the SPECTOR NS-Bass that the original Streamers even had the EXACT same headstock shape:
And BTW: I discovered where that funky Hipshot bridge came from that's on that "NS-2" that's on Ebay (that we all know isn't an NS-2)... It's the Leo Quan copy that Warwick used on their NS-2 knock-offs back in the 1980's. That answers that.
So to answer your question... Yes. The SPECTOR NS-Body, NS-Shape, NS-Bass, refers to the FIRST bass guitar in history with a fully carved, curved body.
Anything Warwick has done is simply a copy of.
Very awesome historical knowledge there JPS! I love stuff like this!


Congrats, I dont know you personally but being a Spector nut, I know of you, as you are like a Spector household name.
That bass is beautiful!!!!