Beedster

As an electronic music student in the 1980's, Amon Duul were pretty up there for me. Wow, seems a long time ago though

Splendid

This, and it's organic compression that responds to the signal as opposed to synthetic compression that needs setting. I've never found a compression circuit built into an amp that I liked. Get a lightweight all-tube head and let it deal with it for you

I imagine all bass players wear underpants also, I vote for new pants

You’re a moderator so it must be true

Sorry, Ive looked at both and wouldn’t buy either for the reasons you suggest

Well you did ask what you should buy yourself? Had you just left baby news hanging out there, I would have said "Congrats on the new arrival, buy him a Precision Bass" BTW I don't like to see the words P-Bass (sublime) and Trump (ridiculous) in the same space

Congrats BTW

A Precision

Yes and yes. Like so many other things in life - social media, virtual reality, food flavourings - we're replacing the organic with the synthetic, and when we get the organic - real face to face contact, real skydiving/sex, real food - it just does something to our emotions that's a little more, well, emotional. Now, before all you Class-D'ers descend on me like a ton of whatever the hell it is they make Mesa Boogie transformers out of, what I mean by this isn't that tubes are somehow better in objective and technical terms that transistors etc, but that all too often we're sold the idea that whatever the non-tube technology is, it can do what tubes do. In sonic/waveform terms perhaps it can, but IME in emotional terms, it can't. There is something visceral about a bass played through a big tube amp; even my Mesa Boogie Titan V12, a great amp with shot loads of h**t, couldn't touch my SVT.

The comforting glow of power tubes. Our singer got a telling of a few years back for trying to take my Mesa 400+ out to the car park on a freezing night about 5 minutes after I'd turned it off. It would either have heated up the entire car park for all the punters, or cracked all the tubes, I wasn't going to risk the latter

In comparison with most rounds, I’d say yes, certainly in relation to low mids

SVT-II is the king of Ampeg tube amps. Simples. Hard to say why in technical terms, but in acoustic terms it's just that little bit more visceral (IMO of course)

Yep, likewise, if I could find an amp heavier, less convenient and more expensive that the SVT-II, I'd be all over it I rarely play venues that require the bass through PA, at least not the SVT played through my Barefaced Super Twin, which does tend to fill the room nicely