What is the difference between these 2 Sx basses?

[DrummerwStrings]

I VERY much doubt that this is even slightly true. I'm sure the cost most revolves around the cost of the wood which involves many things from availability to demand for MANY things not just musical instruments. It's great to keep thinking up "plausible" arguments, but that isn't the same actual reasons. Just like you somehow think that science is needed to "prove" tonewood matters. Science is not Art. You have no idea if science is sensitive enough to actually measure the things that artist say they sense. In fact it does not matter if artists ACTUALLY can sense the things they say they do. IF they think they can, then it can play a role in their art. Art is not science and science is not art. This is little different than the arguments raging between science and art over whether ESP is real or not.

Agreed. Many factors affects the $, & measurement is an issue.

 

[Kubicki Fan]

... It's great to keep thinking up "plausible" arguments, but that isn't the same actual reasons. Just like you somehow think that science is needed to "prove" tonewood matters...

Science is the method that we use to reveal "actual reasons". Plausible arguments or hypothesis are tested and discarded if they are not true (or some useful approximation of the truth such as general relativity, for example)

... You have no idea if science is sensitive enough to actually measure the things that artist say they sense...

1. Science is a method we use to arrive at the truth; it is not an instrument. Sensitivity is not a quality that applies to science, rather, it may apply to some tools used by the practitioners of science.

2. Qualia - individual instances of subjective, conscious experience - are not well understood by science but they are probably understandable, however difficult. At least we know too little to even say that they are beyond the reach of science.

...In fact it does not matter if artists ACTUALLY can sense the things they say they do. IF they think they can, then it can play a role in their art. Art is not science and science is not art. ...

It is up to the artist to choose what informs their art and interesting art can and does come out of pure delusion. The pursuit of truth is hard work, so much so, that too many in our culture prefer delusion (see Netflix: An Honest Liar).

IMO art and science are two aspects of the same thing this is eloquently explained by Richard Feynman: