Paulhauser
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Congratulations! Curious about your thoughts on it after the arrival and initial play. I was looking at the 5 string version of it, I think I have posted pics in the other thread but the additional cost of importing put me off in the end. In general I really like these new special editions, great to see the brand bringing out such gems
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My take on it: LT= LighT. It was the first euro model with weight relieving (before the Classic) RST= yeah, RoaSTed CST= CuSTom Don't seem to remember what LX means to the original Euro, as it was already 35" for a few years with the pre-LX Euros (for the 5ers anyway) so my take is also that it has to do with the sandwitch body and fancy tops that were introudced (spalted maple, quited maple, zebrawood etc) Stuard did say that one of the reason for changing to the sandwitch is that the supply of suitable maple wings were dwindling. I'm pretty sure the XL add for the NS-5 means 35" i.o. the original 34"
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To the contrary, the NS-5XL (and the Euro 5 that is based on it) is my all time favorite instrument, I'm using my NS-5XL for much of the recordings I do and play Euros live exclusively. I sold that particular bass because I liked my other NS-5XL better. It was actually a NAMM bass with a one-off violin finish, as they were calling it and was a great playing and sounding bass but one can't have them all (unless one is @cetera) Can't remember the exact selling price but it was around £2,000. Good old times...... edit: I sold it in end of 2017 / early 2018
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Double post, Mods please remove.
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Me, too. But the thing is I can't seem to remember ever seeing a Spector with a wenge neck. Stuart was adamant about using 3 piece maple necks which were sourced from the East Coast of the US, even exporting these to the Czech workshop for the Euro line. Btw @Angel the NS-5xl example on the picture used to be mine.
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FIFY. There is a name for it you see. 🙂
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Thanks @Misdee. It is my first Spector purchase for more than a year (ohh the restrain!) and unfortunately as of yet I have no incoming Blue Burest SpecEd CST (that might change 😉 )
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Goood god sometimes I feel that is much safer playing 5 strings as it seems the difference is a lot less but nevertheless, it is a great conversation starter 🙂
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Is the carve of the necks are so different? 😮
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Thanks @Sean I am a fan of the Euros, too and have always been. Great basses that come close to (or in my experience can match up with) US models.
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And it is worth mentioning that apart from me costing @cetera some money this below cost ME some money and heading my way next week 😉
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Agreed. I wish all my Spectors' bridges were as close to the edge of the body as possible, even if sacrificing high fret reach. Which issue I, as a cellist student turned to bass player never understood, cellos don't have cutaways still you have to reach up high if you have to play notes there. (Full disclosure: I do understand it can be an issue for some, but if I ever play around and over the 20th fret is 99% tapping which overrides the cutaway issue FOR ME)
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I would've been surprised Gary if you didn't have at least a COUPLE 🙂 🙂
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Sean, just to clarify, what do you mean by the Euro '79 JJ? There was a limited release of Euro 1979 LE back in 2019, but that has DiMarzio PJ pickups (I own one of these) Is the NS-2JA-R that you mean, the Euro bolt on limited edition (83 pcs each of the three high-gloss finishes: solid white, solid black and natural gloss) that Spector did back in 2008? "Spector's NS-2JA-R is a limited edition reissue of the company's NS-2JA from 1983 and features the original Spector NS curved body design and NS-2JA deep-inset neck pocket design. Other features include a maple body, chrome hardware (Leo Quan bridge, Schaller tuners) and EMG active J pickups with EMG BT active tone controls." On the original question: I have a Euro 5 Classic JJ and it sound different to my Atelier Z 5 string "superjazz" ('60 spacing). Both pickups on the Classic are closer to the bridge and the overall sound of it to my earsis closer to my 5 string PJ /DC Spectors than to the jazz, it still has the Specor DNA rather than the jazz.
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@Sean it is too much of a Sunday afternoon now and I can't be bothered to take out the ruler and the phone, but this intrigued me, too. I have a bunch of Euro5s and NS-5XL and they all have different distance between the bridge and the edge of the bass and they are ALL 35" And to add: I have two pre-LX Euros, both has serial number that starts with "zero" as in "NB0xxx" so basically from the same year and the neck length / bridge -edge distance is different on them, too :-) Love them all nevertheless and it's just an iteresting "Spector minutiae" as you said
