Blindfold Test: Maple vs Rosewood

In the vein of ibanezcollector's p-bass VS variax thread, I thought I'd do a little comparison of my own. To be honest, I did this more for my own benefit but then I thought it would be fun to get other bassist's opinions.

Here's the story, I had a jazz bass with an Allparts maple jazz neck and a P bass with an Allparts rosewood jazz neck. I decided to switch the two and see which sound I preferred. My p-bass's electronics are acting funky, so the recordings you'll hear is of the jazz bass.

These necks are identical - bound and blocked, same dimensions (both are JAZZ necks. They even have the exact same hardware on them - Gotoh tuners and a Hipshot 3 string retainer. Same white plastic nut.
When I swapped necks I left the same strings on the bass - 6 month old D'addario XL's .045 - .105.
The bass was recorded with both pickups maxed and tone control wide open directly into the soundcard of my Apple Powerbook G4. I recorded using Apple Logic 7 with no effects. I set the gain on the recording channel exactly the same for both takes.
Basically, the only differences should be the wood of the necks and the slight variation in my own playing.

Here's the audio! (Btw, either track could be the rosewood or maple, I place them in no particular order)
Audio Track 1: www.joehincke.com/audio/audio1.wav
Audio Track 2: www.joehincke.com/audio/audio2.wav

Just for fun, here's how the bass looks with either neck:

 

No problem!

More questions for everyone:

How big of a difference can you hear between the two tracks? Do you think this difference is small enough to be compensated by a slight bit of EQ or part of the 'inherent sound' of the type of wood?

 

Thanks! That's a good point about the technique. I hear a bigger difference than I thought I would, but I think it's because I KNOW which track is which.

Not saying which is which yet, but I decided to keep the rosewood fingerboarded neck on the jazz bass for now.

Oh, FYI, I played both tracks with my thumb anchored on the neck pickup, so there shouldn't be much difference from my technique in this case.

 

Nah, I'm going to wait for the North American day crew to chip in before I reveal all.