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Nittaku Acoustic Review
Nittaku Acoustic is a 5 ply wooden blade.

I have paired it up with Tenergy 05 and Tenergy 80. The blade gives a good feedback and the player can find out where he has gone wrong while making an error. The control of this blade is high when compared to other wooden offensive blades.

Weight: the weight is approximately 85~88 g. It feels a bit heavy when paired with Tenergy rubbers.

Make: The blade has a smooth finish and has a very comfortable straight handle. Nittaku always remain one step ahead in this respect.

Counter play: The blade is fast and controllable for a counterplay. With Tenergy rubbers the spring effect comes alive.

Topspin: the blade has a good amount of dwell time and hence looping becomes easy. Close table topspin play is effortless and aids in good amount of spin.

Mid and far distances looping is very good and the ball always travels in the intended direction.

Consistency: The blade is very consistent. One can easily achieve a quick and controlled rally in a game.

Sound: the blade produces a crisp sound effect on hitting.

Short Game: The blade has a very good touch and feels which helps in the short game at a high precision. Flips are easy and so are the pushes.

Blocking: in general wooden blades are good in blocking and Acoustic is no exception.

Conclusion: Nittaku Acoustic is a very finely crafted wooden blade made with special wood lamination technology which is originally used in stringed instrument production. Its unique blocking, looping and hitting capabilities will always be significant in the world of table tennis.

Rubbers Used:
1:Haifu Blue Whale 2 pretuned 38deg
2:Kokutaku Blutenkirsche 868 Tokyo

First of all,I was totally amazed by the performance of this blade.it felt perfect in my hand.the handle is comfortable,not too thin and not too thick,just ideal.secondly,this blade is not head heavy,a common occurance in most blades today.

I was able to perform every shot with ease using this blade.Not only that,but the control department cannot have anything less than 10 out of 10.I was winning points left right and centre just by using the control this blade offers,as well as with a bit of help with the rubbers.

Another thing is that although this blade is all roundish,I was able to play away from the table with ease.and to add to that,I had a chinese rubber on the backhand.so to say that this blade is slow is a biit of an exxageration.

Do I need to say anything else?

Finally,,everyone should try this blade.it is cheap and plays very well.maybe I got one of the good ones,but I certainly don't regret trying it out ever.I sometimes even prefer it over my Actium...

My current blade and i don't think that i will change it. All wood, fast, controllable, and very good looking too.

It is very good for mid distance game, it gives you the feel of ball.

Definitely the best Stiga blade so far.

Really good blade, only problem I have now is that its hard to glue rubbers to it as the surface is quite slippery, once the rubbers are on however its really worth it.. The blade is expensive and at first hard to control if you're not used to the speed however once you get used to it, it is such a great blade to have and is really fun to play with.

Really good rubber, all around fast and spinny with good control.
I recommend it for anybody who is taking table tennis seriously and had adequate money to afford this rubber, I personally use it on backhand and don't like it on forehand, I feel like the service/short game is a bit weak comared to chinese.

I have mostly used wood blades but I wanted to use a carbon blade to produce a good speed easier.
So I bought a Primorac Carbon. I was a great blade. However I was missing something that all wood blades gave me. It was feedback.
I was blessed to try and buy this blade. It gives me great feedback. I know with the feeling when I produced a quality shot and when I didn´t.
It gives me great control with Xiom Vega pro on both sides. I can feel how I can hold the ball during a topsping. It is such a nice feeling you will lose with most carbon blades.

This blade produces a lot of speed. My shot are mainly spinny and the attacks get really fast when the ball bounces on the other side of the table.
This is a high quality blade which I decided to use instead of timo boll innerforce alc.
It doesn´t have anything to envy from Butterfly.
It might have been created as a clone but they made a gem.

Most people complain that it is not a tenergy. I am actually happen it is not a tenergy.
I love its softer sponge. Along with the blade it gives a better feeling and control.
Eventhough I come from using Hurricane 3 which is a hard rubber its tackiness and some booster were all I needed.
But with this rubber I saved all the hassle and even though it requires good technique, it is not as demanding as the H3.

This rubber was designed for spin but don´t let that fool you, you will be able to blast the ball with proper technique.
Since I am not a Ma Long, I rather start with more spinny shots to keep attacking and find my winning ball.
I try to do this at least with good blockers. Against other player I can just power loop or a spinny loop can end the point.

For blocking this rubber is a lot more easier to control than the Hurricane 3. This rubber has helped me improve my blocking skills which I have tried to improve.
I am mostly an attacking player. Therefore I find more pressure when I am not the first one to attack. This is why I have been working on my blocking skills to stay closer to the table instead of trying to start a counterloop rally.

You can push the ball easily and when reading the spin properly you can add a lot of backspin as well.

To help the durability of the rubber, I use a wide edge tape.

It is definitely a good rubber and for the price is just perfect.

This is one of the best European rubbers in terms of the overall quality. It can put adequate amount of both spin and speed on a ball with control while playing matches. The hardness of the rubber, 47.5 degree, may or may not be suitable for some players, but for those looking for mid-hard tension rubbers this will improve the consistency of both your fore/backhand as well as the game quality all in all. Meanwhile, mines lasted only about 2 and half months and became slick on the top sheet surface. The rubber isn't cheep, so it may not be an option for players in need of durable rubbers considering the price.

In comparison to other plastic balls, this one is relatively slower and less spinier and extremely fragile and not durable. Three balls got cracked after 4 hrs of practice on the same day. Though the price might be reasonable, the ball is not worth whatever the price is. If you consider purchasing new Nittaku balls, the "new" new poly balls of Nittaku should be recommended.

Moon is a rubber wanna copy the BTY 05 , and the effect of it is ok, just ok. The spong is very easy to damage when you pull it out from the blade, and the QC of it is not stable.

I use that ball 3 times, it a little bit not come out, compare to the double fish new ball , it is more round and durable.

I have finally found the blade of my dreams, after i have played with Rosewood,Viscera,Clipper and many more this is the first the i am really in love with. It have a fantastic feeling and touch, you can almost feel the ball from your hand when u hit the ball. The really good thing is that you have a fantastic feeling and a really fast blade. My blade is around 84 gram and it is like nothing when i am playing and my wrist is fully free

Switched to this rubber from M version, which where good but i had lack of control a little bit. Very good rubbers, played also with Calibra and Tour but these i like much more. They have proper amount of spin and speed combined with control. Some of my friends that play with Tenergy liked them very much but at the end they think that Tenergy is better which i doubt. I think that is just that they don't want to admit that tenergy is not absolute.

Anyway these are the best rubbers so far and I am waiting eagerly the Astro rubbers

I played with this blade for about 6 months. Very good blade, very fast but not easy to control. A friend of mine played 2 days and requested to buy from me, and now ended with Rosewood VII which is very good and suits me better.

My backhand rubber by preference. Perfect for blocking. I just wish Tenergys would be cheaper because I can´t play with any other rubbers.

This is now my forehand rubber by preference. It is very spiny and has very good control on blocking. Like many users have said, the price is the issue.

Strong positive relationship between price and product quality. Excellent control. The Yinhe blade has very good speed whilst keeping the control

Very good control. The rubber changes to better rubber as you play with it. But not an excellent rubber. Maybe if you boost it with oil than it might become an excellent rubber.

Very good blade for its price. I have two of these and they are a little different from one another. I like their control and speed.

So I used this on a carbon blade for a while after first moving to it in the idea that aslow rubber and a carbon blade will be controllable when I want and fast when needed. This wasn't always true.

Speed:very slow, due to the soft slow sponge and top sheet this rubber is perfect fora beginner, it allows control and precise placement as well as an ability to create spin due to the dwell. However when back from the table and looping to win a point against a opponent a shot you put all your effort into can appear lacklustreas the rubber saps all the force from it. Also it bottoms out very easily.

Control:very good, spin produced is good however when receiving spin the rubber performed very well after moving from Chinese hard rubbers it was nice to have a more forgiving feeling, it also made it much easier to flip a serve back allowing an early attack. But if the attack went on for too long you could find yourself at the mercy or the lack of speed.

Spin:good when washed and new, the top sheet is fairly grippy and soft allowing good spin on every stroke.

Durability:this rubber has good durability, however if you do not look after it the rubber will loose spin fast, this rubber is perfect for beginners on a budget even those learning attacking as long as they buy an offensive blade(more like soft euro rubbers then the cheap Chinese offerings) however it will require a clean every or at most every other use to keep spin at a good level unlike the 729 normal which will continue to produce good spin(if not optimal) even when dirty.