It’s Passive
Slim(er) Maple body
Fast slim neck
Super awesome look
Here’s what I don’t like
What’s up with the super cool Coil selector Series/Phantom coil/Parallel. I’m all for simplicity but that’s the essence of Sterling “Sterling” SB-14. There’s one in this exact form from Sterling a decade ago call SB-4. WatUP man?
Seems similar to my Ray SS4, different pickup. Which I really like
They added 10 so they can charge more
I dig it, @Al1885. Sounds great, and a 1.5” nut width? Aw, hells yes! 
Sterling and MusicMan would not be themselves if they are not screwing up the series and model name. This is more around Sterling but it’s fair game around Cutlass, Sabre as well as StingRay.
Here are EBMM Sterling Fretted and Fretless
Here’s the Sterling SB14 original. It has identical electronics.
Here’s 2023 limited edition SB14 Volume/Tone
We’ll you’ve already seen the 2025 offering.
Not only that, the original EBMM Sterling while smaller, slimmer it offers more aggressive tone and tone options as well. It’s such a bad a$$ Bass.
Which do you mean is badass: the SB4 or the new SB14?
Neither!
The original SB14 and the EBMM Sterling are bad a$$
Best SBMM electronics now is the Short Scale. So much so that I considered buying one to simply use the electronics system on a custom build, but I already have 2, 
I bought one a few years ago. 
Are you talking about the passive electronics with the rotary 3-way parallel, single coil and series switch and the push-push volume switch for a volume boost like the set on my passive Commerford shorty Stingray? It and he are boss!
Yep! It’s super awesome. Super fun on a Fretless
Conn did this as well with saxophones and I never understood it.
14M was a bass sax, then a really shitty alto, etc. They had every number from 1 to a gazillion to use and decided instead to reuse numbers.
