I’m with @NancyJohnson on this. One of my first posts when I’d only just joined BC was this one...
...and I still think the essence of what makes a bass is something oddly undefinable. I remember everyone coming out of that blind test at the SE Bass Bash in 2018, some looking quite bemused that they couldn’t tell basses apart. I have recently finally found a fretted bass that I really like, the ACG Harlot SC, I love the shape of the bass, I love the woods it’s built from but it just has this kind of aesthetic harmony to it that hits all my likes, unsurprisingly I think it sounds incredible too but could I have picked it out in that blind test? Bet I couldn’t...