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Great review again Dan! Could you elaborate a but more why you think the Dignics 05 would be better for your BH than T05? Could you take a picture of the sheets of T05 and D05 side by side? Thanks buddy.Hey guys! Here's our latest review of the new Dignics 05 rubber by Butterfly!
40 degrees is equal to what hardness in ESN? 48??
53, according to the conversion tables I've seen.
I find the information about the arc a bit confusing. Not sure what may be true when compared to T05, but it sounds like it has a slightly lower arc.
Guys, seriously, the price tag is ridiculous. I know that you will give loads of good facts about why is that spensive, but please, do not support that kind of movements from the TT Brands or we will end all paying 50€ per a random rubber in a few years.
Don't get me wrong I'm not being a hater, just triying to call the community common sense.
Kind regards.
The price is horrible - I didn't pay full retail for my sheet and if I couldn't import it for less then I wouldn't have bothered. The only way the price increase makes any sense is if BTY's claim of increased durability means I can get much more use out of it. And even then I don't like the trend that it may establish. But this shouldn't be news - BTY's pricing policy for Tenergy has always been grim in my eyes.
If it works for the TT player the price is fine. We are not talking about housing or health care which are critical elements in life rather TT rubbers. It was great to see Dan's review as he had actually used the rubber for 3 weeks extensively and could provide a creditable review of its capability rather than having short practice session and offering his opinion and he never discussed price vs performance as he understands its up to the individual players to make that judgement.
This is a very good question. The tighter the radius of the arc, the greater the spin is. Dan seemed to contradict this.I find the information about the arc a bit confusing. Not sure what may be true when compared to T05, but it sounds like it has a slightly lower arc.
If it works for the TT player the price is fine. We are not talking about housing or health care which are critical elements in life rather TT rubbers. It was great to see Dan's review as he had actually used the rubber for 3 weeks extensively and could provide a creditable review of its capability rather than having short practice session and offering his opinion and he never discussed price vs performance as he understands its up to the individual players to make that judgement.
Question is, will the sponsored players be willing to change from Tenergy to Dignics.
Dan's review was excellent. He didn't mention the price at all, which I felt was something of a small red flag actually rather than "he's leaving it up to us to decide", because he's obviously prepared to give his opinion on the rubber in every other way. I wonder if he paid money for the rubber, as I did, or if he was sent them for free? Worth considering I think. If he had discussed value for money, but received the rubber for free, he may have been in a tricky position. If he didn't buy them with his own cash then he did the right thing and kept a value judgement out of it.
It should be plainly obvious that value judgments are incredibly subjective and personal. I don't feel the need to add "in my opinion, based on my financial circumstances" at the end of any sentence where I discuss the price. I don't feel like anyone reading my post would be so stupid to think that "it's too expensive" is a universal statement applying equally to a TT player on the poverty line and Elon Musk. But to compare rubber prices to housing or health care is a really odd stance to take, IMO. I presume we can just have rubbers at any price, so long as some arbitrary other social costs you pluck out of the air aren't impacted or comparable? For me, this price is mad and the rubber must do mad things to justify it, or I simply can't/won't pay it. I have too many other outgoings and interests in my life to accept it, beyond the "principle" of the matter where we look at the overall TT marketplace (as NDH and others on this thread have said). I don't expect everyone to agree with this - it's just an opinion.
I presume the comment about the single practice session was aimed at me. Tell you what - before I start to discuss a rubber in future I'll check in with you, the gatekeeper of TT forums, to check that I've used it for long enough before I start to chat about it. I hope that's OK with you? I'm a long way from doing a review, if I choose to do so at all. Just random thoughts after a single session, which I made clear. You shouldn't compare my posts with Dan's full review - it's silly to even try to give them equal weighting, and even sillier to try to make out that I'm trying to do the same.
No the comment about the single practice session was not aimed at you, I have read many of your reviews of not all your rubber reivew, I just think price has noting to do with whether someone may or may not find the rubber attractive from a performance review point of view.
Best to you