You guys are a bunch of moaners, mutterers and whiners!
Dutifully, I have tested my Goldtop (horrible color, what was I thinking?) XL LP and my ES 335 side by side. Comparing a hollow-body and a sizeable solid chunk of wood such as the LP is tricky, but other than that the TB Plus pups sound a little louder on the LP (might be the controls or maybe pups just sound louder in a solidbody or maybe it's just standard production variation), the character of the two pairs on pups on both basses is identical: warm, blurry, but not muffled or distorted. An ideal sound for me. I don't know what's with all these people having issues with the TB Plus pup sound!!!