This first image is of the blade after being sharpened with my very well loved 600# diamond stones that have seen well over 1000 uses:
And here is the blade after being sharpened with some relatively new 600# diamond stones which have sharpened less than a dozen knives:
The difference is pretty dramatic. With my old 600# stones I get a very polished looking edge that easily zips through paper, shaves arm hair and does every day work very nicely. With the new stones, the edge is very toothy and snags in paper, doesn’t shave well but is ferocious on squishy tomatoes when slice cutting.