Congratulations on that beautiful new headset. I've been having some headset woes myself, but I'm back to headset bliss again. I discovered this spring that my 1 inch threaded Campy Record headset had dimples in the fork crown race. It's over 20 years old and I've repacked it every year, but it's gotten to where it jiggles loose every few months. Riding with it loose probably lead to the crown race damage. When I discovered the race divots, I decided to replace the retainer bearings with loose bearings because I could put in 21 instead of the 20 in the retainer, and hopefully they wouldn't all sit in dimples at the same time. I had no end of troubles after installing the loose balls. Either the headset rattled on every bump (obviously too loose) or I felt the dimples and the fork didn't turn smoothly (obviously too tight). Last week the steering felt so bad that I went and bought a new headset. I was actually considering replacing a Campy Record headset with a $20 Tange (it was all the bike shop had) because the steering felt so unstable. I started the headset job on Friday night but discovered (1) that removing a fork crown race is a lengthy process, and (2) the replacement headset was not quite the right size (27.0 mm crown race rather than 26.4 mm). So I put the fork back on with the old headset but put back in the retainer balls. The first test ride I had unstable steering at low speed because it was too loose. So tightened it up and tried again. Finally got a headset with stable steering and no obvious divots. I'm very surprised at the difference between loose balls and a bearing race. Maybe the race keeps the balls from moving radially, or makes them less likely to rattle. In any case, my headset feels good again. I did order some tools for removing and setting the head races, and I'll have to order the correct replacement headset and do the job sooner or later. But I'm really happy to have stable neutral steering on my bike again for the moment.