Upgrade!!

In the late seventies, early eighties Ned Steinberger came with a totally new kind of bass guitar with a minimalistic design that looked more than a stringed cricketbat than a bass. But the sound was unique, many bass players from great bands were seen with it on stage and on TV.
The price you had to pay for it, however, was not affordable for amateur and semi-professional musicians. So brands like Cort and Hohner came with a cheaper copy made out of an one piece maple wood instead of carbon-fiber and graphite, but with the original licensed Steinberger hardware. These basses became famous for their own unique sound.
I have a Hohner B2 from the eighties and played it many years as my main bass. These kind of basses are known for their boomy twangy, low to high, with an incredible overall sound all over the fretboard, great for rock, folk, reggae, fast chord runs, etc, and it cuts nicely trough the mix.
You had to put roundwound strings on it, because there was nothing else available for decades in the double ball end bass strings range.
Recently you can order La Bella double ball end flatwounds also in Europe and so I did.
They're not cheap, but what an upgrade! Of course you'll miss the characteristic sound of your old strings at first. But soon you'll find out that these strings only strengthen the sound you knew so well. And what a great tonality! Where you've had to be very careful with the tone pot with the roundwounds, because of too much treble, with these you can close or open it anyway you like, and it still sounds great.
These basses are known for their high output; with the labella's it turns into a heavy monster!
A few con's though: the strings have a little more tension then you're used to. And they're not so smooth as the flatwoundstrings on my other basses, specially the D string feels a little rough.. But I don't think it effects the sound.