Bought this baby about 6 months ago. Sounds great unplugged, fit and finish are nice, and plays good! It's silver sparkle too! It sounded great in the store, but I wasn't impressed with it live. My gripes are that it only has a soapbar bridge pup and active electronics... Yuck! I contemplated installing a Stingray pup but since I'm building another bass like that I decided not to.
So what I decided to do is build a "hot" J. I am also stepping outside my "norm" & using Lace Alumitone pups. A friend has one of the HB's in his JR, and I gotta tell ya'll, it sounds DAMN fine!!! They are a HiFi passive Pickup, very interesting design! I'm yanking the active circuit out all and wiring it like my Ric. I plan on mainly using this bass at church where "that" tone is what I'm after. There I mainly use my Ric or the P bass loaded with a Gibson Recording bass pup, which is also a passive low impedance pup. I use my high impedance basses in straight ahead rock bands or the bkuez band I play in.
I'll post progress pics as I make headway. Tonight I pulled the control plate and neck. Tomorrow I'll route, then it's just waiting on the pups.