had an Echo top handle years ago, can't remember the model but I never liked it. That was partly down to that I never had it running right but also it felt wrong after an 020 and the chain was 45 DL not 44 so my tired 020(black top) chains didn't fit which just annoyed me. I did the obvious carb, filters, lines, looked through ports, etc but that was the limit of my knowledge at the time. Moved onto a second hand 020t(orange top) then 200t, and bought one of the last new ones last year so should be ok for a little while. Never liked the Husky at all either. Maybe I'm just biased