Exactly right. He even stated that he has both. Were I interested in just brass cleaning, or if nice shiny brass were more important to me, his advice is right on the money. In fact I was already looking at adding that later. For me right now the versatility was more important as I had an extremely nasty AR bolt to clean as well. Can't do that in a tumbler, but the Hornady Hot Tub did an awesome job on it!