I have no experience with the Spirit models, but I had an old Korean Hohner B2A that was fun and very high quality. I paid about €250-300 for mine IIRC, and sold it for roughly the same when money was short. It's a quirky thing with awkward ergonomics: the neck was narrow but pretty deep and round, the string spacing was narrow at the bridge (16.5 mm IIRC), it only takes double ball strings unless you add a string clamp behind the headpiece, and despite its compact build the first few frets feel really far away because the upper strap button is behind the 21st fret.
Mine had Select by EMG pickups, some models have Hohner-branded pickups. Either way, I believe them to be guitar humbuckers underneath a closed cover. Nothing wrong with that, it sounded cool. The active electronics were kinda weird, IIRC they were a two-band boost-only affair. I much preferred the active tone over the passive tone, it had much more overtones and a brighter and livelier tone with the preamp engaged.
Edit: found a pic. Apparently mine had the Hohner-branded pickups.
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