Resistance and necks...

Over the last year I replaced my stock Mark VI neck with a Boesken bare brass neck, and realized once I got used to the new neck how much less resistance there was. Having a similar experience with a different neck I have picked up for my MArk VI alto as well, and I find it interesting how much I had gotten used to the resistance of the stock neck, and perhaps how I was mistaking that for a core or ring to the sound or something. Anyhow, its eye opening to go back and learn to hear different things in the sound and use the air in a different way with a lot of the bad resistance out of the equation. I am also finding it has thrown off the equation in terms of mouthpiece and reed choice as well--I am having to go back and balance things out differently now. Has anyone else had a similar experience?