[hakukani]

Sounds like you're Goldilocks looking for the porridge that's just right.

You've found the too bright and too 'boring'. Sounds like you need a medium baffle piece. Where you go from here depends on how much $$ you want to spend.

 

[hakukani]

I think you would be able to find a Lamberson DD in that price range. Tim Price seems to think that they're the bees knees.

Darn, forgot to ask: alto or tenor?

 

[hakukani]

I'm assuming it's for alto. I'd say send it to a refacer and tell him what u want from the reface. I got mine from John Reilly in the Orange county, CA area. My jazz teacher Eric Marienthal and other pros from the LA area get theirs done there, by the way, Marienthal plays a refaced customized beechler from John. Overall it'll cost about i'd say 50 for reface and 60 for customization? so 100 dollars you won't need another mouthpiece!

I knew Marienthal couldn't have been playing on a stock beechler!
Reilly's the real deal.
I play in a little big band where both the tenor player's piece (modified meyer) and bari player's piece (modified berg) were done by John Reilly. It really changed their sounds for the better. Maybe I should send mine to him too