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Many thanks, sounds quite scary. Perhaps you could send some samples to Dan here at the forum and hopefully he could do a video review of the range? Tour sounds like it needs a high level player to evaluate it.

From early listings, Tour has a surprisingly hard sponge. I've only seen sponges that hard on ESN rubbers with tacky topsheets, like Xiom Tau for example. Will Tour be tacky?

Come on man, VE and VE-DF are different rubbers. They have different entries on the LARC. Put them side-by-side and you can see that they have different sponges and topsheets. You can't have it both ways. You can't say they aren't different but they have differences while keeping a straight...

I think it's generally accepted that companies can have one topsheet with several sponge hardnesses, and that in these cases there is sometimes only one LARC listing (like Tibhar 5Q). When they make a change to the topsheet though, they tend to rename it and go back through authorisation (like...

I think that's pretty good. I'll probably always remain a bit skeptical about it because there's an established pattern with rubber improvements/re-issues where you go via the LARC. If Xiom really did change the OVT topsheet to an obvious degree then I would have expected them to have to apply...

I haven't used lots of sheets of V Tour (I have supplied several to clubmates over the last few years though), but again I've always doubted that anything changed in terms of the rubber itself. Just branding on the packaging. If the topsheet changed in tech or production terms Xiom would have...

I'm not seeing any anger, just a request for some evidence. OV Pro has never used the DF logo, as far as I've seen. IMO OV Asia doesn't have two versions. Xiom may have changed the packaging to unify their marketing or make it more consistent with the manufacturing process, but there is only...

I feel your pain. I dislike switching between different plastic balls each week, but if I had to use celluloid as well then I'd lose my mind. Like Fabian, the first thing I had to do was make sure I stood closer to the table and remember to stay very low. I used to have a bad habit of...

Wowzers. Many thanks! Xiom, eh? Predictably unpredictable.

Does this mean that O7 Asia is only 45 degrees? Not what I expected at all.

Oh my. If you haven't seen Gionis v Dingshuo yet then go and watch the ttinfo highlights on YouTube. Absolutely blinding match.

I think you already did mate.

KR has both a softer sponge and topsheet in comparison, but it has a really peculiar property where it feels incredibly predictable as you increase the power of your shot. So even though it has more catapult and a softer overall feel than MX-S, it gives off a similar feeling of solidity and...

I've ordered from them a few times now. They've been great so far, fast delivery, no issues.

I love Xiom and what they bring out, but as the years have rolled on I find it very hard to put my finger on their marketing approach. They have great products (Omega V is one of my all-time favorite ranges, so I'm super-excited for VII of course), but I don't expect a great deal of sense.

Ultimately, I've found tt-spin.de to be a reliable source of info over the years. They reported (in Nov 2017, citing Xiom Europe as a source) a Dec 2017 release for Asia, March/April 2018 for Europe. And as things stand today, this is what's actually happened in the real world, away from forum...

Thanks all. Presports have added images to their facebook page which usually means they will list in the next day or two. I've put an order in at iruiru though, so we'll see how that goes.

Hokay. I think it might be best to say simply that none of the larger suppliers in Europe seem to have it yet, so if anyone hears anything to counter that then please speak up for the sake of European customers.

Not to be too down on Xiom (they're great, and they've supplied some of the best ESN rubbers IMO), but it wouldn't shock me if they were trying to generate a bit of extra hype by throttling supply. If so, it's working so fair enough. But it could just be that they can't get enough made (I'm...

To be honest, no. Not until you said it. I presume that, as a supplier, you know something? Have you asked them? Or are you just assuming because you've been able to get stock? What I've based it on is the early reports from sites like this...