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Quite a difficult search profile. I can only recommend you give Rasanter R48 a try. The hardness is nominally on MX-P level, but it plays softer. Spin is better than anything I have ever tried. Whether you´d like how it plays I can´t say. From the wide area of basically very similar rubbers...

German made rubbers like Gold Arc 8 have gone through a lot of development progress to finally arrive at a point where some equal t05 in spin potential. t05 being less spinny than GA 8 seems a bit unlikely to me, having tried both. I liked GA 8, but I thought it was a bit like Donic bluefire M1...

But you explained it well.

I think the KVL Carbon used on all three is nothing like the Zylon Carbon used on the BTY ZLC. Andro have a fibre simialr to Zylon in the Treiber FI and FO, but it is not paired with carbon there, so they´d be more similar to ZLF blades. For me, the outer fibre CO plays more accurately and...

Not even sure about "around" the same for DHS and BTY. For rubbers manufactured at ESN (not all European brands have all their stuff made there, not all stuff made there if from European brands) same scale applies. As for Vega pro vs t05, the basic charateristics (low catapult) are pretty...

It has taken some time since I didn´t want to buy one for testing, but I came across one (and another Gauzy blade, more of which later). The HL CO is a moderate carbon blade, that is not to say a soft carbon blade. It feels like "good old carbon" without additional fibres and is considerably...

"Heat" (as in highest setting, close to the rubber) surely ain´t a good idea. The lower settings from 10 cm distance for a few seconds are not even close to playing in a very warm hall, where over time temperature has an influence, albeit one that doesn´t last. However, at the end of the day...

Well you can never be sure, can you? Some companies clearly indicate the thin topsheet technology with terms like ultramax or max+, while others may just have their variations out not talking much about it. For what I know though, andro has the Energy Cell sponge pretty much exclusively, and...

Yes. I generally think the newest ESN rubbers finally equal the spin potential of the t05 variants, but the Energy Cell sponge used on R53 and R48 even puts something on top. R48 is a fantastic rubber - controllable for lower league players (who will not get the maximum out of it, but also do...

One more thing, many men wouldn´t be seen dead with a blade named after a female player, that probably being the reason why there are so few. Liu Shiwen and Ai Fukuhara blades should be such a success, and if Mima Ito was a man Nittaku might just as well produce an Acoustic blade as her...

This is actually an indicator. On basic levels women just don´t care - or worry - so much about equipment. Ask a male amateur about his rubbers and the answer might very well be "At the moment I play ABC 2.0 mm, before I have always had XYZ 1.9 but while that had good speed the spin was lacking...

That would be PowerGrip SFX? The sponge hardnesses are pretty much identical. Rasanter has the thicker sponge (in ultramax/max versions) and the thinner topsheet. PowerGrip SFX overall plays a little softer, easier and with more catapult. Rasanter would be the choice if spin is your thing...

My Gauzy blade was head-heavy at below 90 grams, which is why I don´t play with it anymore. It has excellent touch, and yes I found it more responsive than Ebenholz. Gatien Absolum should be similar, but haven´t tried it. As far as all wood goes, the Gauzy has all the power you need. But replace...

"Reviews" are coming in, or rather statements, interestingly diverse from different parts of the spectrum. One player (third league Germany) is very impressed by the performance of this rubber. He previously played MX-P 50, so he should know something about performance ;) Despite his skill...

I haven´t heard any complaints from the people who are using it.

And it does. The R48 repeats the trick that R53 performs so well. It enables more spin than R47, yet feels softer, however not bouncier - so on passive shots it will not do anything unwanted, while on active shots it adds some extra power. I recommend this to anyone playing with a rubber...

Maybe these days it seems like too old school. 3 + 2 Tamca Carbon, no Arylate, Zylon, or whatever they call their "new advanced" other fibres, no "Innerforce" variant so people can discuss whether one is 5% faster yet has 6,5% less dwelltime, and also, especially for a Butterfly blade, not even...

4, 5 strokes - then straight into topspin vs block, of course not full throttle. And as has been said, the actual warmup happens elsewhere before the 2 minutes prior to the match. But even that does not include many flat drives.

I haven´t had the chance to play with R48 and compare it directly, but it should be a matter of days. The Energy Cell sponge of the R53 enables to gain the advantages of harder sponges (more spin in accurate strokes) without the main disadvantage of being much more "unforgiving" and stiff. In...

As for now, all guesswork, though I guess the guesses will be correct ;) However, I am due to receive my rubber soon and will find a time and place to test it despite of the difficult current situation.