As I am new to straight shaving, I liken this to my DE expperience.
I had a large number of vintage gillettes and one new merkur HD.
I shaved with my most expensive razor because I thought it was the best.
It wasn't untill I gave away most of my vitages gillette to family that I ended up selling the expensive one or two and only have the merkur HD left.
After that my shaves only got better. There were no surprises when coming to the sink first thing in the morning.
I am resiting switching razors until I get consistantly good shaves that I am satisfied with.
Currently using the F. Renolds frameback that I won in a givaway a couple of months back.
A fine little razor.