The tone wood "debate" never ends well here....ever. You have been warned.
That being said, here's my take. I have played hundreds of basses. I used to work at a store and setup every one that came in. I have been to stores all over the country and fondled their products. I have bought and sold dozens over the years. I have borrowed friend's basses just to compare them to my own.
There is no value to a species of wood. Tuere is no tone algebra you can count on. There are some trends, but they are not EXACT and always true.
So you can't give Adler a value of x and maple neck a value of y and rosewood board a value of z and make a formula of....
x + y × z = warm tone
To me, the INDIVIDUAL pieces of wood matter. Some pieces if ash are more dense than others. Some pieces of mahogany are heavier than others with the same dimensions. All kinds of variables come into play.
Some combinations of individual pieces of wood have that "special sauce" that you can't explain. I could bore you with the details of two basses I have played in my mire than 30 years of playing that had that special sauce. They sounded like an acoustic bass when unplugged. The very air around the shook from the vibration of these two instruments. I had before, and have since, played dozens and dozens of basses with the same combination of body, neck and fingerboard wood. None of the others resonated like these two. (One was a 2005 wine red Mexi Fender Jazz.....so nothing "special" as far as price or custom craftsmanship.)
Since you linked to an article on acoustic instruments, I can shoot that one down too. The store I worked at got in a Ton Petty Signature Martin guitar. We had had two others before it that were nice, but nothing amazing. Just good quality Martin guitars. That third one just sang. I was the first to take it out of the case. I was beside a PA speaker that was playing Dave Matthews pretty loud. The guitar was vibrating loke crazy to the music. I called over a guitar player. I said, "Uh, this guitar is either messed up, or something pretty special." He tined it up amd strummed one chord amd his jaw dropped. That guitar took sound from the ether and projected it like no acoustic instrument I had heard before that. I'm sure if I read the specs out loud to a good acoustic lurhier he would tell me how it was "supposed to sound". Two of them were pretty nice. One was special.
So don't go off and get a bass made for you with x body and y neck and think you can bank on the particular brand of magic you are after.
Good luck with your quest.
