and when I mentioned it at the local store I was gifted a sample from them too. 
But I'd say it depends on how deeply one is willing to buy into the Advanced Nutrients marketing and additives. If one buys everything they recommend up through the grand master level, then Advanced is the money draining king of cannabis. If anyone wants to hop in their way back machine, somewhere back in the double digits page numbers I think, I did a side by side Advanced m,g,b vs m,g,b + a boatload of their additives. Wash... Very few things past the basic m,g,b would I consider buying again. Well that and I despise the way AN advertises and what they allowed to happen to their US distributors. 
Well I got my Remo line at a pretty good price
I don't have enough experience with the Remo...yet, to know how little of it I can run and still maintain harvest minimums. Nor which items in their line I think one could do without. Biggest advantage I've seen with Remo is that even at full strength it doesn't "gunk up" a bucket like Advanced does at half strength. When I ran them against each other last year the Remo plants roots remained whiter for a longer time. Not to say they weren't brown at the end, but not as soon as Advanced.
So I reckon it comes down to; Less salts left in the buckets and rootzone...Remo. Cost...either or. Results at harvest...either or. Advertised pH perfect...Advanced. Which works without adjusting pH...both.
What will be replaced when I run out....Remo. Simple reason, I think with some tweaking I can bring down the amount salts in the rootzone even more, eventually achieving pearly white roots at harvest.
I love a man with a moral backbone.
If you knew the whole story you'd be shocked ! Next time IRL I'll fill you in. "Moral backbone" bwaahaahaaahaaahaa !!!
During the change and bucket cleaning I remove the netpot containing the plant from the growing bucket and place it into the empty bucket. I dump the growing bucket's remaining contents down the commode. Rinse and clean the growing bucket, pour the contents from the mixed bucket into the growing bucket, replace the plant, put the air hose back in. Do that four times per tent, two tents, 16 water filled buckets total. I'm sure there is an easier way, but I've worked out a routine that's easy for me to remember. But I'm old and smoke an awful lot of grass so it's hard for me to even remember my name most days. 
Wow...I can't believe I call myself a lazy gardener after reading this.
Somewhere there is some dude with the option of tossing a handful of seeds outside, and only coming back for harvest...oh how I envy that person.
Well that and I despise the way AN advertises and what they allowed to happen to their US distributors.
Also notice my airlines running to the top of the tubes? Air is pumped into the tube, through the elbow fitting at the bottom, and directly into the bucket... no airstones.Could that by why your roots aren't still white as can be at harvest time? IIRC, the vast majority of the oxygenation of a liquid occurs at the surface; IOW, it doesn't matter if a tank is two feet deep or ten, since there isn't much benefit from the bubbles traveling up through the liquid. Err... I think? It's the turbulence at the surface, the multiple bubbles "breaking." I have gotten the impression that the same amount of DO ("air"), delivered by way of more - but smaller - bubbles gives the most value, due to the ability to provide a more turbulent surface interface.
That could all just be a steaming pile of horsesh!t, though
Probably the only thing I have against DWC. At reservoir change time, it becomes just another drain-to-waste hydroponic method. I used to try to pour mine outside (as and when I could) so that the plants in the garden could have a chance of wringing the last bit of nutrient out. But I must confess that I've dumped my share of nutrients into the sewer, too, in the past. Visiting the local wastewater "treatment" plant and realizing just how much stuff goes right through it, untouched, and then directly into our natural water systems... was a real eye-opener. It was almost like they weren't doing anything (FFS!) - just letting micro-organisms (and some that could be seen with the naked eye) eat what they could of the organics, then running all the solids (undigested feces remnants, about ten billion cigarette butts, coins, jewelery, the (very) occasional finger/fetus, et cetera) through the giant press to remove all (that they could) of the last bit of liquid from it, then into the big dumpster for haul-out. Everything else... to the river! Because, hey, it's not like we - and all the other communities downstream - get our drinking water from the river or anything <HEROIC EYE ROLL> .
