About that...
There is a thing about Spector. I've heard PJ Rubal say it a 1000 times... There's a thing about "tradition".
Stuart chose gold and brass because that's what he liked. So that became the bridge and hardware color for the NS-2 once he started making his own bridges and was no longer using the Leo Quan bridge. And even then more NS-2s were made with the Leo Quan Badass in gold than in chrome.
Todd can tell you how rare a pre-USA Bridge Brooklyn NS-2 (not the NS-1... they had more chrome... LOL) with chrome hardware is.
PJ has been asked why do they still build basses with that "honking-large blinged-out gold bridge"?
First, gold/chrome/black... they're fads. They come and go in popularity. The 1980's was about bling and gold. And now black minimalist hardware is popular.
The size of the bridge has to do with the area of contact for the bridge when routed into the body so that the minimum amount of energy in the string's motion is lost. The more massive the bridge, the more surface contact with the body of the bass, the less energy lost.
This is PART of the formula for eliminating dead notes.
The Spector USA NS-2 Bridge is gold out of tradition. Nothing more, nothing less.
So (and please correct me if I'm wrong Todd), for guys like myself, Todd and PJ, who were very aware of the history of these basses, an NS-2 without gold hardware is actually a little weird looking. Because from 1983 until the Forte was released in 2009-2010, the occasional black or chrome hardware NS-2 was very unusual and rare. By far not the norm.
I agree with Todd. I think GOLD is the great traditional color... it's the historical NS-2 color.
I personally love the silver on the cobalt (a color I worked with Jimmy and Stuart to develop thanks to the "Royal Blue" color that Rich has on his NS-4 and a few Spectors in the late 2000's were finished with) and ultra-violet (I think a color Todd inspired with his Purple Daze bass).
That's the history lesson.
As for my opinion in the "fun" you're having with deciding this or that color.
The ONLY color I don't like is the black. It drags the overall color down, doesn't provide contract for the lighter grain. It comes across too monochromatic and flat.
With the gold or the silver you have something to contrast the dark stained areas of the wood and the dark knobs and pickups.
If you want stealth and sleek (I'd suggest Ultraviolet might not be the way to go... LOL) then the black is good.
If you want something with depth and dimension that will bring out the grain of the wood and provide contract for your eyes to play off of. Then gold or chrome is the answer... my fav being chrome on this color unless you have the BEM neck. Then Gold to play off the yellowish color of the maple... which deepens in time. Remember, finished wood will get darker in time.
I expect my already dark fretboard on The Blue Dream to be ebony colored in 10 years.
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Lasty, I have ordered my very first USA Spector with black hardware... the Steel Monster (that's what it's name will be).
And I really struggled with that decision.
As for a classic NS-2... I'll always prefer gold. The Blue Dream is my one silver hardware bass.
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I'm so relieved that you got it and in one piece. 
And you're enjoying her. I had to figure out some way to unload all of these round wounds...and I know you'd use them 
