New Balls Please

[moglet]

They are inconsistant with their reaction regarding playing with stun, screw, top and especially side. They kick at a ratio of one in three shots and it's this that has the marked difference over whether you can gain the position that you normally would when using super crystalates, or even actually pot the ball on.
I can't explain why, but my guess is that they are too elastic in nature, and that this elasticity varies within the balls as well as between them.
They remind me very much of cheap pub pool balls.

I find myself wanting to agree with you, but I cannot prove, given identical conditions that the two types behave any differently. I can show that the early super crystalates in those same conditions do behave slightly differently both in deflection angles and cushion response.

The last SC's I got from Saluc, about three years, where in a black box and were more expensive. I have to assume that these were SC's and not TC's as I have to do for all SCs I bought from Saluc.

I do agree that the little kicks (sometimes not so little!) make position, direction and so on a bit of a gamble.

[moglet]

I had a telephone conversation this afternoon with one of our foremost billiards players (a member here) about the two "current" balls on offer, his reply to my enquiry was that neither he nor the colleagues he has spoken with could tell any difference between the two. This is of course a different discipline, but it is one that would show up the differences more than "snooker" game would.

Given the same conditions of course.

It would be interesting to hear what the same top snooker players have to say on the issue on the forum.