New Butterfly rubber "Dignics 05" 2019

FruitLoop · Feb 26, 2019

I doubt I see any. But maybe they just want to make T05 seem cheap? It's £20 a sheet less, bargain!!!

Der_Echte · Feb 26, 2019

Greg Letts saw this coming years sgo... Tenergy 105... for usd 105.

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zeio · Feb 26, 2019

The West gets shafted yet again. Not even the US could escape this time. Yet in China, the MSRP for D05 is just ¥40(~US$6) above that of T05. But because the shops always sell it at a discount, the final price could be roughly ¥490+40? One webshop lists it at the same price as T05, but with a subject-to-change warning.

yoass · Feb 26, 2019

Well, the West is due a good and proper shafting, after shafting the rest for roughly the last two milennia.

Actually, a little extra Butterfly tax won’t hurt the fat cats all that much, will it?

Ok, ok, stereotype funtime is now over! Couldn’t resist. Sorry.

QWERTY Spin · Feb 26, 2019

While i know that i will never pay that much for a rubber as long as all those cheaper and still good peforming alternatives are available, im quite curious how pro players will adapt. I think most Butterfly sponsored players will either change to T05 Hard or dignics 05. Will not sponsored players follow. will these rubbers be the new pro players go to rubber ? Time will tell.

langel · Feb 26, 2019

The earliest registration of Dignics I've found in LARC is from July 2012.
So the strategic BTY sponsored players have hade more than enough time to adapt.

whocarez · Feb 26, 2019

Is Dignics 05 Hard already registered?

FruitLoop · Feb 26, 2019

QWERTY Spin said:
While i know that i will never pay that much for a rubber as long as all those cheaper and still good peforming alternatives are available, im quite curious how pro players will adapt. I think most Butterfly sponsored players will either change to T05 Hard or dignics 05. Will not sponsored players follow. will these rubbers be the new pro players go to rubber ? Time will tell.

Tbh they've probably been using that new sponge for a while, at least the big name players.

Nan Xing · Feb 27, 2019

Dignics will be more expensive than Tenergy. Probably over $100.

Tinykin · Feb 27, 2019

Some posters here can give us information straight from CNT HQ. Surely someone here knows a pro who has been using Dignics and can give us lesser ones some info on its performance. Or are they bound to secrecy?

Suga D · Feb 27, 2019

Tinykin said:
Or are they bound to secrecy?

Just a wild guess:

but I could imagine that this is part of the sponsorship contract.

As written in a different thread, Bimo Toll wrote on https://forum.tt-news.de/showthread.php?p=3027379 that he's been experimenting with a rubber that isn't publicly available yet and that he can not give any more Information about that. So people been assuming it might have been the t09c.

zeio · Feb 27, 2019

It could be the tacky rubber he mentioned over a year ago.

Suga D · Feb 27, 2019

zeio said:
It could be the tacky rubber he mentioned over a year ago.

Haha, a good chance you have a point there.
Thanks for posting.

Mykonos96's reply to Igorponger made me spill my drink all over the keyboard though.

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Hopefully we'll get a chance to see this rubber one day.

Baal · Feb 28, 2019

I for one don't dig it.

Suga D · Feb 28, 2019

Baal said:
I for one don't dig it.

U dig nix*?
[Emoji2]
I for one must admit that neither diggi nor t05h has really made me excited, but the Tenergy09C sounds promising to me.
I already liked the 'SpinArt' (except its price tag) and a more lively version of it would be welcomed by many who like (semi-)tacky rubbers but don't like boosting.
But since no one really has seen this rubber yet, it's all nothing but assumptions. Maybe it's not even tacky. Now that would be an eye-opener.
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[*German slang - meaning nada, nothing, zero]

jammmail · Feb 28, 2019

NDH said:
So the UK supplier has just listed this at an eye watering £74.99 per sheet.

For reference, all of the Tenergy range is £56.99.

I could be wrong, but I just don't see Dignics selling at that price.

Perhaps some rich juniors who buy into the marketing hype, or rich adults for that matter who want to try it out, or feel like they are playing with the very best equipment.

I'd be very surprised if people end up seeing it how they see Tenergy - Certainly in my circles, Tenergy is seen as the gold standard and people are happy to pay the price for the performance.

I fail to see what the extra money is buying you, or how it could be so much better.

I guess we'll wait and see!

Thats with £15 discount too haha

See the Harimoto blade is on there too. Control rating is lower than i thought it would be.

NDH · Feb 28, 2019

jammmail said:
Thats with £15 discount too haha

See the Harimoto blade is on there too. Control rating is lower than i thought it would be.

Just goes to show how laughable Tees Sports "ratings" are - They haven't even got the blade to test out yet, and we know it's virtually identical to the Innerforce ALC! It's ridiculous.

The £15 discount is also fake IMO - I don't know where they get their "RRP" prices from, but if you look at Butterfly's prices directly, they correspond with Tees Sports discounted price.

I've ordered the Harimoto blade though!

jammmail · Feb 28, 2019

NDH said:
Just goes to show how laughable Tees Sports "ratings" are - They haven't even got the blade to test out yet, and we know it's virtually identical to the Innerforce ALC! It's ridiculous.

The £15 discount is also fake IMO - I don't know where they get their "RRP" prices from, but if you look at Butterfly's prices directly, they correspond with Tees Sports discounted price.

I've ordered the Harimoto blade though!

The rating are more consistant with ZLC blades than ALC so really don't know what they have got it from. Must be pretty good being able to work out how it plays without using it!

I always laugh seeing there prices as there always discounted.

Cool I'm tempted to get it too - be good to hear how you get on with it. You going to pair it with your 05 Hard and 05?

NDH · Feb 28, 2019

Yeah, I've already got a new sheet of T05H and T05 at home - I usually get Tees Sport to make up the bat if I'm ever ordering a new one (they always do it much better than I can!

The "ratings" are completely bogus. How can they give it a 7.5 in control??

It feels like they rate their equipment based on sell price (the more expensive it is, the better it is).

FruitLoop · Feb 28, 2019

They've used those ratings for so long and I think so many club players think they are gospel that they don't want to abandon them. They help sell and people would almost certainly complain if they did. Wouldn't it be nice if it instead just gave technical specifications?

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