The TR is faster with faster recovery and a bit more backbone than the 8#-12# GLX, with GLX getting weight department edge.
The Echo is actually not at all similar to GLX or XST.

Your buddy have any photos of the new rod WCPH? Factory assembled or he build it himself?
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