Yamaha BB234 was my first and I still play it regularly but a couple months after getting that I found a used G&L Tribute L2000 for a nice price on Reverb which sounds phenominal but is quite heavy, then last month I got a Fender Aerodyne Jazz while they were on a decent sale. It’s a very nice variety with a lot of tone options
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The Spector Dimension 
It looks soooo good. I’m saving up for the 5 string version as my 3rd bass
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I started with an Ibanez GSR200B
Then, after a couple of years moved to Squier PB VM which was a great upgrade in sound (the Ibanez felt too complex and didn’t provide main stream sound for me - maybe I didn’t manage to get it)
Finally, after B2B I went for a Fender player JB (didn’t allow me to go for the Adam Clayton JB … not so much for budget but I thought I still didn’t deserve this type of price tag)
TBH, the squier (with flats) is as enjoyable as the Fender
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My first was also a TRBX174EW… It is now my dedicated BEAD tuned bass and still gets played when I need that extra low string some some songs… My second… a TRBX304 in Candy Apple Red… A great bass that also gets played quite a bit even though it’s really kinda heavy… Not a bass to be playing out with since it’s passive only, but it did teach me how to use an onboard EQ, and, this is the bass that I always learn new songs on - it’s really easy to play and sounds great… Of course there’s been a 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th bass since then and they all have their unique differences which is why (to me) playing bass is so fun and unique… I do however have my favorite that gets played the most because of its versatility and the tones I get from it when I play… It was either #5th or 6th… 
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The first was a used Silvertone 1444 Dolphin Bass with a single lipstick pickup like this one. Purchased around Christmas 1965 for $35 with case.
The second was a LPB '66 Fender Jass Bass like this one purchased new for somewhere around $325-$350 with case.
The third was a '63 PBass bought used from a friend for $225 with case.
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Dig it!!
My first bass was a Japanese made Cobra Pbass from the late 60’s early 70’s. It had the body of the Stratocaster with the neck of the Telecaster.
This is my $80 Grandpa Pigeon’s Cobra Pbass. With a single maxon mini humbucker, a volume, and a tone pots. These basses today are just over grown guitars.
Then my second bass was a red Maco. With the PJ style pickups. Which just happens to be the only bass I end up getting. I’ve gone through a lot of basses since I was 16. Now I’ve got a 74 Harmony H906 a Rogue LX205B (Which I’ve decided to just strip it down, and use the plywood body for firewood.), a Rogue SX100B duby Generic Pbass, and my Generic Jazz Bass. I have two guitars and 4 basses. There’s only two of them 6 with a solid body. My generic jazz bass, and Walmart Special First Act Me80 guitar. My Harmony was made in Japan and has a plywood body. So she is in pieces in my storage unit. With the laquer stripped off the front and the back.
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Nobody PLANS to have GAS…It’s a disease! It can be managed, for a time, but there’s no cure 
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Now I get to answer my own question 
I recently bought a Yamaha BB734A in Dark Coffee Sunburst.
Does it feel different to the TRBX174? Yes it most certainly does. It’s hard to pinpoint exactly what it is. But the overall feel is that it is a product of a much higher quality. I am very impressed!
I’ve always laughed a bit when people said “You don’t pick your bass. The bass picks you.” 
But the moment I saw this one in a store I was surpriced of how instant my reaction was. This was my bass!
Luckily I found a second hand one. Two years old in mint condition at half the price 
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Very nice! Congrats on the find.
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At $400, that’s an absolute steal. Great find and welcome to the BB734 fam.
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First bass was a Yamaha P copy
second bass was a Hohner B2A
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News from the cheap seats here: My first bass was a Bluerock P Bass that I paid £20 for with a practice amp.
Second bass is a Harley Benton B550 that I paid £165 for:
1st amp was the Bluerock practice amp that came with the 1st bass. 2nd amp is an Ampeg RB108
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I had this Washburn, circa 1993, as a second bass. Forgot what specific model it was. remembered having wait 2 weeks for it to be delivered to the shop. I had read a review on the French bass mag’ of the time. Can’t find it on any archive though. If someone could help ^^
Edit: Seems it could be the Washburn XB 200 or 400
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First bass was a Fender acoustic bass guitar. Mentioned one day to my wife that I wish I’d learned to play bass and she surprised me with it for my birthday a few months later. Used it for the first 3 months until I was sure this was something I wanted to continue doing and got my second bass, Fender Jazz MIA in Olympic white with the Rosewood fretboard. I’d planned to wait until 6 months before upgrading but I’m glad I didn’t wait. The acoustic has a 32” scale and the electric is 34” and that 2” did cause some learning set-back, just to re-learn where the notes all were. I do eventually want a P bass but right now the jazz is checking all the boxes, great playability and great tone.
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My first bass (not my first instrument, but the first bass) was this Sterling Ray34. I loved it very much, but life had other plans and I had to stop making music for quite some time. So I sold it eventually, after having it standing around and being sad everytime I looked at it for some years…
A few years later, I was finally able to get back to making music and bought a new bass again. This time I wanted a Fender, so my second bass was this Tidepool Metallic colored Fender Player Jaguar bass in the middle. I adore this bass and will never let it go.
Followed by the one on the left, and the one on the right eventually. 
Still on my list: one U-bass, one fretless bass, one real Jazz bass, one real Preci, and probably one Sandberg California. At least. 
Help, just shoot me, please, lol. 
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My first bass was a Epiphone Tobias Toby. It was ok to get me going, but wasn’t very good. I then bought a Spector Legend 4. I was seduced by the name, the history and the colour of this bass, but in reality, I didn’t really like how it played.
Both of these basses have since been sold, as have a number of others, as I’ve searched for “the one”.
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I don’t know what your budget will be, but if you’re wanting a fretless that plays great and won’t break the bank, look for a fretless Sire U5. It’s a heck of a lot of bass for $550 or so. I liked my fretted U5 so much, that I bought the fretless to learn on before the 3500 € Marco Marcústico I ordered last June shows up in a couple of weeks (if the luthier meets his 280 day build quote). I’ve also got a 2000 € fretless 5-string Lignum Spring bass being built. It’s due in early April. I hope 3 fretless basses will quiet down the fretless GAS attack I suffered.
Bassists tend to think of acoustic double basses being an octave down from a 4-string electric, but in an interview with John Myung of Dream Theater, he mentioned that a 5-string electric bass maps almost exactly to the range of a cello. Hence my GAS for a 5-string fretless bass.
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