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How about Palio seamless balls? Are they re-branded Xushaofa balls?
I asked because in Thailand, Palio ball is officially used in all TTAT-approved tournaments.
Never read the comments above,but my experience with the Nexy poly balls is very satisfactory.I reccomend them
I could be wrong, but, as far as I have been led to believe, at this point, the only seamless balls are being made by XSF.
More update:
Luckily, I was given some DHS poly balls which were prepared to be used in Grand Finals 2014 in Bangkok. The DHS ball's bounce characteristics is identical to Stiga Optimum 40+ ball. I think both DHS and Stiga balls are the same. Both bounces less than Palio/Xushaofa and Andro Speedball (celluloid). Makes me wonder why ITTF used seamed poly balls at all.
How would you say the spin is compared to the celluloid ball?
The goal was seamless, but obviously factories encountered difficulties, hence seamed versions being approved too.
Yes, Stiga balls are from DHS factory
I am trying to find out which factory Butterfly is from, and why is Butterfly charging more for the same ball etc
Butterfly probably make them, themselves. I think the quality of DHS balls like the Stiga ones which you mentioned are better quality than the Butterfly. I definitely think Butterfly balls are not made from same factory as the DHS ones. I saw on TTD reviews the Butterfly ball reviews are poor: http://www.tabletennisdaily.co.uk/equipment/balls/9950-3-star-40
I definitely prefer the seamless ones at the moment. Butterfly do have this Easy ball coming out, that could be something...
No, Butterfly does not have a factory to produce 40+ balls, as it stands, there is only 5 approved by ITTF and 4 in action.
Butterfly is not one of them.
So there is a chance that Butterfly has an early version DHS ball (which is really bad quality), or they using DF balls.
And then charging a huge premium for the logo
They are both Nittaku poly balls, are both white and round, but have different playing characteristics to each other, are made using different techniques and in different factories. Not in the least confusing, eh?I have yet to try the Nittaku balls. There are two types from Nittaku (Sha + Premium) What's the difference?