Hi Matt
You are right of course and I know I'm pretty inept with LR and it was certainly not the intention of my post to criticise it. It is the industry standard and used by many; and extremely effectively. Nonetheless C1 seems to work better or maybe more intuitively for me and using the RAW capabilities of Iridient on X-Trans files seems to be and interesting and possibly a worthwhile additional extra step.
I am under the impression that Iridient has been developed more specifically with LR in mind and I wanted to show that it seems also to work with C1 and in my opinion gives better results. Your 10 seconds with LR, while improving my original LR rendition still shows quite a colour difference especially in the shadows. It lacks in my view the tonality and richness of the C1 version.
Thanks for your input. Much appreciated!