Why anyone would argue on the net about pickups is beyond me. Why anyone would do it Rick Turner is even beyond me beyond beyond it ( ). Glad he is back! Would love to hear a detailed history of Jack's and Phil's basses. Did they rewind the bisonics? I know they went active because they noticed the bisonics had a significant treble loss when they added cable for all the electronics they wanted to put in the basses.
Well there's a guy there who's a scientist, and while he's a smart guy, he gets hung up on some of the minutiae and will argue that things don't work that way, etc.
Rick is more of a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants guy, and while he has much more experience and talent, he's not quite as scientific about it.
But I say you have to respect the man, even if he has some details wrong! His contribution to the world of bass is immeasurable, in my humble opinion.
Plus he seems like a cool guy. I got to pick his brain a bit, which was quite exciting.
I have read that they measured the Bi-Sonics, and they had a very wide frequency range, and that they added the transistor buffer. Then Rick's pickups had a wider frequency range, so it doesn't sound like they rewound the Bi-Sonics.