What a difference a setting makes.

Newbee,

Thanks for your good wishes.

@newbee 

You were so right in pointing out there are significant sonic changes available with manipulation of the turntable.
I’ve found great improvement with very slight changes of settings. 
I never would have thought it.

For every cartridge, dependent upon its internal resistance and inductance, there is a "critical" load resistance, below which (in terms of the ohmic value of the load resistor) its output starts to roll off noticeably and there can be a gradual loss of treble, as load R goes toward zero.  For your Hana ML, the recommended load resistance is "greater than 100 ohms", not 100 ohms as recommended by your dealer or whomever you relied upon.  This might indicate that Hana perceived that a 100 ohm load was not going to bring out the best in your cartridge, that at 100 ohms its output and treble extension would both be compromised.  So changing to 200 ohms would be expected to effect a big improvement.  As someone else suggested, you might consider further increases in load R, just for the fun of demonstrating the principle.  But you shouldn't be surprised at your results reported here.  At higher and higher load R values (load on cartridge goes down) there will be much less difference to be heard, because you are moving away from critical load value, but you might like some higher value of R even better than you like 200R.

I did experiment with all the settings above 200 and found 200 to be the best.

But I will wager that values above 200 were in any case better sounding than the original 100 ohms load.  Or at least the flaws  in SQ would be of a different nature, compared to 100 ohms.