To be fair, at least two of those five 9 volts are for the LEDs of the Status Buzzard. I know, because my Status Stealth II with active electronics and LEDs uses four 9 volts in four different compartments. Those all-graphite basses where neck and body is one and the bass is hollow (but stuffed to not sound hollow) have a sound of their own, extremely resonant, huge sustain and an attack where the tone is almost there BEFORE you've hit it! And you need to play accurately on them, every little mistake stands out. They don't sound brittle by nature, actually quite organic (but need fresh strings too), what's different to other basses is that they sound unsettlingly even all across the fretboard.
Uwe