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In my opinion the 3* seamless plastic balls are not as good as any 3* plastic balls with seam.
The Xushaofa balls are in comperison to other balls pretty round and hard but with the seamless balls you are not able to play as powerfull shots as with the plastic balls with seam and it is very difficult to play with a lot of spin, what you can do with non-seamless-balls.
So all in all i prefer the plastic balls with seam ecpecially those of Nittaku.

The Baum Esprit has, for a Carbon-Blade, a relatively soft feeling for which reason the blade provides good control in all gameplay-situations.
In my opinion the bigggest strenght of the Baum Esprit is that this blade provides extremly good control in passive play for a offensive blade as well as when you want to play topspin-topspin rallies at halfdistance you can play pretty fast but also spinny shots due to the high arc the blade grants.

In terms of the weight of the blade I have to say that the Baum Esprit isn't really heavy. Mine has 88g. It is a bit headheavy but I think that this isn't bad as with this attribute you are able to put spin on the ball more easily than with a blade like the Clipper Wood for example.

And because all of that I have been playing with the Baum Esprit, which is a underrated blade, for a season and I'm won't change the blade for a while since I think that it is a great blade for versatile offensive players.

As you can discern out of the pros insertion above the Li Ping KiTex is a blade which provides very good control in passive play for a OFF+ blade due to it's relatively soft wood-composition along with it's compared to simple Carbon or Aramid Carbon soft Texalium layers.
The only problem for me is that this blade isn't really something for amateur players who practice 'only' three times or less a week in my opinion as with this blade you have to have a solid technique to produce heavy spin especially in terms of the third ball attack because with that blade I have the feeling that if you were not playing with a soft rubber, which semi-pro or pro players mostly don't use as they use medium-hard or hard rubbers like Tenergys, it is very hard to produce spin but if you want to play fast topspins all the time this blade is a very good choice.

Altough it is a little bit too head-heavy you can play nice topspins from the mid-distance, but the strenghts of that blade is playing offensively near the table.
The feeling you have is quite similar with a Primorac Carbon, but a bit softer.
So with the Epox Carbotec there are the same problems like with the Primo Carbon, namely keeping the service short and having a nice low arc when playing slow spinny topspins of pushes and the same advantages like playing powershots what you can to pretty well with that blade.