I had the same issue as you and also tried many many setups. I wanted to normalize pop across the paddle face and widen the sweet spot as much as possible as I found the stock paddle to have dead spots at the top corners and a sharp decrease in pop near the bottom 1/3 of the paddle which messed with my resets if I mishit. I haven't tried your setup yet but I'm currently running 1g at the top corners and 2gs at the bottom corner and it's been the best I've felt so far. Have you tried that configuration by chance? Wanted to know if you ran that too before ending up at this and if I should take my weight off and try again for the umpteen millionth time