Butterfly Dignics 05 Reviews?

is the feeling harder or softer compared to tenergy 05?

h0n1g wrote: Here are my initial impressions after two sessions, mix of drills and practice matches. Rating of opponents and self vary between 1900 and 2050. I usually play with either Fastarc G1/S1 or Gewo Nexxus EL Pro 48 ... .... The sponge feels harder than the reported 42 degrees. I would have personally put it between 45 and 48 in terms of feel. ...

Nightsky wrote: h0n1g wrote: Here are my initial impressions after two sessions, mix of drills and practice matches. Rating of opponents and self vary between 1900 and 2050. I usually play with either Fastarc G1/S1 or Gewo Nexxus EL Pro 48 ... .... The sponge feels harder than the reported 42 degrees. I would have personally put it between 45 and 48 in terms of feel. ... I hope you're not mixing up japanese and european hardness scales...

slevin wrote: h0n1g wrote: Nightsky wrote: h0n1g wrote: Here are my initial impressions after two sessions, mix of drills and practice matches. Rating of opponents and self vary between 1900 and 2050. I usually play with either Fastarc G1/S1 or Gewo Nexxus EL Pro 48 ... .... The sponge feels harder than the reported 42 degrees. I would have personally put it between 45 and 48 in terms of feel. ... I hope you're not mixing up japanese and european hardness scales... I'm not. I just typed it wrong. It should read "reported 40 degrees". Sounds like you are mixing it up, h0n1g: BTY 36 deg ~ ESN 46 deg, IMHO.

Sorry, as I said, it mixed it up. The comment still stands that it feels harder than its classed. If you calculation is correct and T05 is 46-47, I'd say feel wise D05 feels more like a 49-50

Edited by h0n1g - 04/23/2019 at 12:25am

I just put a sheet of Dignics on and had my first session. Initial impression is really good. It's quite fast, but it has a massive dwell. Really good grip and control. My initial feeling is that it plays most similar to T80, but Dignics is better.  I will update after I play more. Also,  I didn't boost it and used Dhs #15 glue. Dignics is plenty lively, I wouldn't recommend boosting a new sheet or use any glue that would make the sponge expand.

Edited by ericd937 - 04/30/2019 at 5:11am

RDinTN wrote: Sooooo... I must be the outlier in that Dig.05 is HORRIBLE. I use a ZLC(FH) / ULC(BH) Custom blade and this rubber has NO dwell, NO feeling and really unpredictable. Granted I was using MX-P prior to putting this sheet on and the backhand really likes that feel and throw angle.   - Dig 05 was not good for passive or active blocking  - Hard to control on BH flip and banana  - Jumpy on opening on underspin (when trying to be spinny)  - Dig 05 was okay at quick off the bounce spin loops vs. topspin  - serves were spinny but seem to go longer than normal  - off the table counter loops - okay this felt the best and were LOADED with spin! So should have I gave the sheet a quick / thin layer of tuner?? Worst $100+ dollars I've spent since that last speeding trap ticket.. just saying

That's interesting. Most of the more advanced players I've heard from had totally opposite impressions. It is definitely a different feel from MXP though so perhaps it needs more time to get used to?

100% not counterfeit..

how many hours did you use it for? A lot of rubbers need time to break in.

Dignics 05 is garbage. It holds no advantage over t05. t05 speed and ease of use is the reason why it's the king of rubbers.

Edited by hunkeelin - 05/04/2019 at 3:51am

I do agree that you have to give it time and possibly adjust your stroke to accommodate it. When I first started playing with it I was worried I had wasted my money because all my shots were going off the table (and granted, this was the first time I had played since Christmas, and with a new blade). But by the end of the night I was really ripping shots with this thing. It's a nasty rubber once you get used it, likely due to the fact that the trajectory is so much lower than Tenergy. I had tried Tenergy 05 on my backhand and I hated it, because the angle was so high and the trajectory was so long I just couldn't keep on the table (even using slower blades). RDinTN, I really suggest sticking with it for a time. I also noticed that I was hitting a lot of flicks high and out early on but I was able to adjust easily enough. The ability to just nullify backspin so easily is probably is best trait, and this will surely prove to be another nightmare for choppers. It's absolutely a very demanding rubber to use but the benefits are high if you are a higher level player. The only reason I wouldn't stick with it is the price (although prott.vip has it for $72 and other other foreign shops sell it for much cheaper than in the US) and that Hurricane 3 plays so well on the Viscaria I'd like to try a softer provincial on my backhand and see how that is. 

I got to hit with a friend's D05 today.  Feels like tenergy to me.  Maybe some subtle difference fron t05.  But nothing magic.  I wasn't tempted to give up the four sheets of  fastarc g-1 I get for the price of one Dignics.  

Having used D05 for a month now it's real advantages over T05  if you call them that are ease in the short game , service, service return and extreme spin variation .You can spin it up or knock all the spin off with D05. I am also coming to the conclusion D05 might be blade dependant to get the results you are looking for.

h0n1g wrote: what’s the best blade you’ve tested it on so far?