Calvin it depends how, and how hard you play. Ken's 4mm-7mm setup is pretty low. Start digging in with the bow and somethings going to rattle at some point unless you're really careful. But play smoothly and you're fine. However, find yourself playing jazz pizz with a piano, unamplified, and you're going to need higher strings to pull some volume.
If you have adjusters you can play around, but if you don't, start higher say even 8,9,10,11mm and bring the height down slowly. I find a good all-round setup is 6,7,8,9 or 7,8,9,10, at least, start like that because it's easy to measure, then tweak away. Take the bass away with the string height a little higher than you think you like it, play with it a while, then if you want, take it back in and get the luthier drop it down a bit further. He/she probably won't charge you to do just that wee tweak.
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