Any experts on Spector basses?

[Kiwi]

3 hours ago, mikeswals said:

 

I don't know if the XL letters were an acronym for anything. But the yeah it was the sandwich body; it had alder on the back half and the thin slice of walnut I think. 

I owned several early Czech/Euro that were solid maple, and the LX's just sounded different to me.

I had one of those clearance Spectors from the demise of Sound Control on Oxford Street.  A NS6XL with a spalted maple top and alder back, it sounded warmer but less growly.  I gigged with it for a while but when an old Basschat queen of a NS5CR came up for sale in 2009 that I originally played two years and two owners previously, I jumped on it and it's become one of my top three instruments.  It does nearly everything really well.  Solid sounding and tight with some nicely peaky midrange and not too bright.   The only thing it won't do is Fender.  But it easily matched and surprassed the three Smith basses I sold off earlier in that year and cost a fraction by comparison.