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This dynamic pricing is ridiculous. No, I will not see them this time. Most likely never ever.

Au = aurum = gold. Rok = Rok!

Yes, including a metronome. There are most likely similar units available today.

I have been taught by several teachers. I would suggest a young student that is at the end of her/his studies. Knows a lot, is eager to spread all the information, and isn't just playing dimished chords up and down the neck. For you @Useless Eustace, I would suggest you to sit down and write on a paper the stuff you are interested in. With that you would have the chance to tell the teacher about your ambitions as well as give a good vision of your wishes.

I have used - tuning forks (A, C) - records - other instruments - various electronic (quartz) tuners from a watch to bigger units (KORG Master tuner for double bass, Peterson SAMS at home) My all time favourite is an inexpensive Ibanez MU40 (tuner metronome). A small, gold coloured package. I have one in a mono single, and another in a mono dual case. My basses stay well in tune. I don't need (or even like) pedal metronomes.

3P supply was mentioned in the specs.

At around 2010 there was a trend to use this black rubber paint in small goods like pens. It has a very annoying habit to become sticky. If it was exposed to sun (UV radiation), it became sticky very quickly. The same issue can be found in silicone components, if they are not post cured. This means that silicone has to be baked after mould a certain time to become stable. If those stand parts were painted, I can understand stickiness, but if the parts are breaking, there may be some bigger issue with the base material. Cheap plastics are cheap for a reason. Good quality materials (say some better PA with glass fibre) were hard to get during Covid. Companies had trouble getting even small amounts from manufacturers, because big buyers (automotive) were served first. I wouldn't be surprised if Hercules tried some cheaper material to keep up their production running. And hide the results with that terrible paint.

I think there two Warwick broadnecks for sale here some time ago. But was the other a Streamer? Very interesting basses, as wide necks are pretty rare. I don't get along with 17 mm bridge spacing. Now I own an MG Genesis 5, and I've seen an MG Quantum 5W for sale here.

I have been considering this dying to maple necks that have sounded good. Dark is the colour for me. Good ideas here.

Sabre would offer more possibilities. Why was is it so short lived, I don't know.

MM. No doubt. I might cut highs just a bit, but other than that MM sounds better to my ears. I like the detailed test setup, and nice playing (even through YT). Well done.

We could... FLTP 1000 km is a real life test for electric cars. It is something completely different from what car manufacturers are telling us. Any bass meeting could make tests of the amps and cabs and publish results to some webpage like BC. Requirements and tests are pretty straightforward if someone has a 1 m stick, a noise source, and a decent audio analyzer.

@MostLow: usually it is feasible to fill the preamp side, and adjust the volume to the desired loudness. This way the noise level is low and the preamp works in its best performance level.

Even high quality brands have to deal with physics.

My modest understanding comes from Sony broadcast cameras. When the power supply broke, there were no reusable parts available in the PSU. This was very evident when the PSU blew around its metal case. Not every time, but every now and then. If any part would break, it most likely will take a few along. Fixing such a unit to its original specs would be a chore.

Lovely!

Oh yes, download some scanning SW (app) to scan notes from books. A very useful extra.

If you want a very good SW to read music from different formats, I suggest you to buy the Mobile Sheets Pro. There's no monthly fee, just pay once. Very functional. If you need (I do) a page turner, check Pageflip Dragonfly. It is small, very quiet (studio use), simple to use, and batteries last really long time. There's a 4 button version available, too, but I found no use to those two extra buttons. I use these with my Android tablet. I have +3000 scores there. Setlists are easy to do, and you can import a few formats to the SW. If you have books in PDF format, you can make sidecars to index big books to individual notes. No more papers!

The guy who did the solderings... I wouldn't call him Ironman.

@godathunder, I think you are asking right questions. First of all, class D amps are measured in a different way than old A, AB, or B class amps. Then the distortion figures may differ a lot from manufacturer to another which offers a big variety to publish watts. Watts are funny, because everybody understands one figure - that is only faintly related to loudness. Where are discussions about sensitivity (dB @ 1 W/m), loudness (dB), frequency response (50 - 4000 Hz ±6 dB) and so on? The only reasonable way to measure loudness sure requires a system (amp + cab). Sometimes it would be very eye opening to arrange an open air test session where anybody could bring a system to the place and then someone with decent equipment and noise source would make measurements.

Phenolic resin?

Is this a factory fretless? Has to be a short scale, because of the Bendwell.

I might read the above like: Two speakers from the same manufacturer that look the same but have different impedances are two different speakers. Depending on the amp it is hard to say which speaker is really louder. Lower impedance may be harder load for the amp and therefore higher impedance cab can be even louder.

Exactly. While the theory about dead spots is true (nearly every particle and shape resonates) the snake oil thing is usually too easy to add to the texts. Bigger is bigger, and more is more. That product page had lots of text, even though the basic theory is about resonance, a stick attached from one end. If you change any parametres of it (length, weight...) the system changes. One way to tune the system is to change the tuners. One by one, or all at once.