Flat wound vs round wound strings

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Just to revisit this, I have 2 sets of these and I think they are very good strings.

Cheap Flatwounds from Aliexpress

Update on the strings. They arrived today and are surprisingly good so far [20231122_175414] [20231122_175425] They came in individual sealed plastic bags, numbered 1st-4th [20231122_175438] Sexy black silks, I didn’t bother trimming them [20231122_183140] They look nice and solid, feel smooth and not at all sticky or grabby [20231122_183148] How do they sound? On this bass were what I presume were the cheap rounds it came with-the guy I got this bass from sadly neglected it. The…