'Congrats!' on your new camera, Mike! The MX-1 should be a lot of fun.
And 'Thanks!' - I'm glad you like these shots
I stopped using Lightroom (and pretty much shooting raw) with the MX-1, because I couldn't match the jpgs in regards to colour, noise reduction and detail.
From all the raw converters I tried, Capture One worked best, but lacked the lens corrections, which was especially apparent with purple fringing.
So in the end I decided to just shoot jpegs, which also speeds up the cameras operation and saves card-space (the dng files are fairly big and take some time to write to card, which sometimes freezes the MX-1 for a moment).
I'm using the "vivid" camera-setting on the MX-1, which works great for outdoors shots (Apparently it creates problems with white-balance in tungsten light. So for indoors shots the "natural" (or "neutral"?) should be better).
To add a bit more punch to some of the images (like the third one in my first post) I like to use the Nik Plugin Collection (now sold by Google). These work as plugins in Photoshop or Lightroom, so you could still use Lightroom in your workflow.
The third one was processed in Nik HDRefex.
What I usually do in HDRefex is to try the presets and pick the one which looks the closest to what I want - and then dial it back until it doesn't look too overcooked anymore. (Most of the time the presets are way too strong).
Then I probably sharpened it in NikSharpener Pro which is also excellent (using Nik's U-points do do selective sharpening. With a lot of the effects you don't want to apply them equally on the whole image. The U-points are pretty great for that.)
cheers,
Tilman