So I've officially joined this club! I've just finished the install with the ceiling mount and have done the basic alignment. Other than that everything is straight out of the box factory settings.
All I can say is WOW! I've never seen a picture that clear, sharp and inky blacks on anything like this before. I've have a calibrated plasma which I still dearly love but it can't touch this. My last projector that got fried in the lighting strike was a Panasonic PT8000 and we really loved it right until it had smoke coming out of it.
So to let anyone get a grasp on how different it is, I'll tell you how my resident non technology person( my wife) put it when I had her come take a peek today. She's been watching Netflix etc on a new LG tv we had to buy to replace the dead one and she loves it. I had her sit down and just watch a few different clips and her opinion was night and day difference. She actually said it was worth every penny! Wife Acceptance Factor approved so if you're on the fence as I was because it has a higher price find someone has can show you how great it is.
Where I live nobody has anything close so I read and read and read before taking the advice of
@AcuDefTechGuy (many many thanks!!!!) so it was a gamble. I'd make that bet again any day.