What an interesting mic. I really like the look of it and seems really sturdy, like you said. For me it would be too much since all I do is teach just a few lessons online with my current Blue Yeti Nano. But for someone like you with a podcast I can see you getting much more value out of it. The audio was balanced I think, mostly whenever it was closer to your mouth.
I'm not liking the bass boost at all. I like crisp clean audio and this sounded very muffled to me. It looks great but ugh, that muffled sound really to my ears is awful