Congratulations! Welcome to the club.
Its a hard one to get into. First you have to understand a whole bunch of stuff that is actually not all that hard to follow except that it is so different than the accepted wisdom parroted dogmatically over and over again by almost everyone. If you actually do it though then the hardest thing to get your mind around is that it really does work so much better than would even seem possible. As you now know, it does!
Its crazy because in most other things it is near impossible to have really state of the art performance, and even if you do it cost a small fortune. With bass however you can have true state of the art performance for like $3k. Not peanuts, but barely entry level in terms of speakers.
You already made the plunge so this might be a little late but here's a neat video I only just discovered and you will notice he mentions a couple points you brought up. Quality bass has a powerful influence on our perception of the whole system quality. So just what you said. Only with studies to back it up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McN2AygDMtQ
Sounds like you already have it pretty well dialed in. Only advice I would give, listen to a lot of different stuff, consider carefully, and make any level changes very small. Whatever you think, make it less.
Other than that sit back and enjoy the ride. You earned it!
Its a hard one to get into. First you have to understand a whole bunch of stuff that is actually not all that hard to follow except that it is so different than the accepted wisdom parroted dogmatically over and over again by almost everyone. If you actually do it though then the hardest thing to get your mind around is that it really does work so much better than would even seem possible. As you now know, it does!
Its crazy because in most other things it is near impossible to have really state of the art performance, and even if you do it cost a small fortune. With bass however you can have true state of the art performance for like $3k. Not peanuts, but barely entry level in terms of speakers.
You already made the plunge so this might be a little late but here's a neat video I only just discovered and you will notice he mentions a couple points you brought up. Quality bass has a powerful influence on our perception of the whole system quality. So just what you said. Only with studies to back it up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McN2AygDMtQ
Sounds like you already have it pretty well dialed in. Only advice I would give, listen to a lot of different stuff, consider carefully, and make any level changes very small. Whatever you think, make it less.
Other than that sit back and enjoy the ride. You earned it!