Same experience here. Was testing a stone and used 2 different hard, quality tomo. Razor was tugging. Rubbed a full stone that I was prepping to cut due to one inclusion and boom perfect shave. Went back to the first tomo and tugging again so it wasn't a fluke. All this while test shaving so me running back and forth lathering etc to keep as many variables as possible equal.
Once the tomo and base stone click the results are amazing.