Wood versus concrete

 

my knees for sure feel much better on the wood floor than on the concrete.

 

I think (and hope) you're right.  Here's the deal,... I spend a couple months trying to decide between the new Donic World Champion TC table and the Butterfly Centerfold 25 table.  They're both made in the same factory and supposedly using the same top.  The top surfacing paint / texture is debatable, though.  This past weekend I played in a tournament where I played the whole day on a BTY, so in one day I got to play on both my Donic and the BTY tables.  At the tournament, the BTY is in a large gymnasium on a hardwood floor.  The BTY table sounds very solid.  But when I get home and use my Donic, it sound much less solid.  It is in my garage on a concrete floor.  I'm just hoping my ears are playing tricks on my brain (associating room acoustics with "solid" or "inferior" table characteristics).  It was just bothering me because that's something I was expecting to have with my new table, and it's not easy to do a comparison between these two tables all in one day.  My Donic plays well, though, and I don't mean to indicate that it's not good.  In fact, the quality is top-notch, and I couldn't be more impressed with it.  Another reason I chose it over the BTY is because the gray Donic paint scheme of the support carriage matches my garage floor, whereas the red BTY undercarriage is distracting on anything except the official Gerflor.