I did a restring and tweak for a guy once, he asked for E/A to be strung through body and d/g through bridge - think it was a fender.
He said it sounded best like that.
it was a nice enough bass.
When he came to collect...I don’t know what difference it made as he played it like he was trying to snap the bass in half.
Then again, I owned a Lull 5 and the B was string through body, and the e-g were top load.
So there must be something in it if Mr Lull said so...