Cort all the way. Their custom seiries are beautiful basses. Honestly though, play both, you may prefer the Ibanez. Consider this though, Cort make something stupid like 40% of the world's basses, lots of Fender, Gibson and IBANEZ basses are actually made at the Cort plant so, bassicaly they will see any problems/good things on other basses and will either sort them out on their own or replicate them. A hidden gem.