Aurus prime and Aurus Select out in the summer?

Don't worry, you are gonna like it.

BaiMile wrote: I see you are playing EL-S on BH, could you compare it with Prime?

Prime is harder, faster, spins the ball better. EL-S - better feeling, control, better grabs a ball.
Honestly, I can't imagine me playing w/Prime on BH. Too fast, too furious. But you are so greatly rewarded with those blasting counterpunches against soft, high arc loops. Priceless.

I've been playing w/Prime for a last month - overall really good rubber but - it has already got visible sings of wearing in the centre of the topsheet....not affecting the play yet but it looks like 4-6 month old tenergy ...makes me worring a little bit about durability of new ESN rubbers with thin topsheets    

BaiMile wrote: Short comparison of Prime and Vega Pro: After several weeks of experimenting I'm a little bit confused by the properties of the two rubbers. I put Prime on the FH and Vega Pro had been my BH rubber for a while. Initially I had problems with my FH, because I used to play with Chinese rubbers on my FH, but now I'm used to the rubber. Vega pro has stronger earlier catapult than Aurus Prime. The top-sheet is firmer and has better grip on brushing. I,m not sure weather the harder feeling is due to the thinner sponge (2.0mm vs 2.3mm) of the Vega or thicker topsheet. When hitting hard, Prime has more catapult than Vega and i think the ball jump faster on the other side of the table. When brushing, Vega bites more with the topsheet. Witht Prime, I have to engage the sponge more and the result is the same. When hitting, I cant say the throw of the vega is Higher. Strange.  I'm not sure which one I like more. If the sponge thickness of the Vega was max, the comparison would be more accurate. For now I'm gonna play with Prime on the FH.

Wow, Vega Pro is making these newest gen ESN rubbers sweat!

It’s interesting that you find the Vega pro’s early catapult stronger. Does it feel bouncier on passive blocks?

Today I'm going to try Prime superdupermax and compare it with Vega pro 2mm on the same blade. 

great review.. aurus prime it is.. 🤣

I liked quite a bit the the original Tibhar Aurus (regular, not Soft or Sound).  

BMonkey wrote: Bought a sheet of R47 Rasanter and Aurus Prime, both max and in black. Put them back to back on a Butterfly Viscaria using Nittaku Finezip; 2 layers on the sponge, 1 layer on the wood. First off, both were pretty similar so all that follows is nitpicking.... I found Rasanter to be a little softer than Aurus Prime more suited to all round offense. Aurus Prime seemed to have a little more kick and responded better when trying to spin the ball hard, like you could go for more and get rewarded by the rubber for it. I didn't think either rubber responded well to forehand power looping. They liked powerful spins (especially Aurus Prime) and if you got a little too open when driving forward, the ball would go flying. Both were ok to block with. Not as easy as a T05 because they are faster, but not as annoying as say, an Evolution MX-P. Will be giving Aurus Prime an extended try out on my backhand to see how playable it is compared to my normal T05.

After playing and training for about 15 hours with it on the BH, have a more definitive opinion. 

a word of warning.
I really liked the select in test of 2.3mm.
I have also tried it in 2.1, it is not as good imo in 2.1mm, not quite the same arc and bounce.
would recommend in fh sticking to the 2.3 ubermegamax as Andy calls it.

I played quite a flat hitter today and it was very difficult to get the arc and spin, more so than with the 2.3mm version

Edited by mog1111 - 07/28/2017 at 6:29pm

Tried aurus select again on WSC, nice new sheet.
still very impressed, blocks excellent, short game still decent
seems spinny enough but quite insensitive to incoming spin
this may stop my ejing for a while

adishorul wrote: The opinion about how high the rubber throws the ball may depends on the blade is used for test.

The opinion about how high the rubber throws the ball may depends on the blade is used for test.

Just had another couple of hours with select on fh in megamax.
I think this is the easiest rubber I have ever used for looping, it just arcs and lands all the time.
I think its probably not quite as dangerous as tenergy or evolution

its just really easy to use and its pretty easy to drive winners with.

if you have trouble sometimes dealing with heavy spin I think this rubber might assist

The rubbers shrink over time.

I tried aurus select last night on fh on donic wsc (off- carbon blade).
Agree with comments about arc, personally really liked the arc, for me it felt similar to 05fx but not as bouncy.
I liked el-s but did not like what it did when you hit harder, I also felt it was sometimes difficult to use if a bit out of position.
select felt very easy to use. seemed better than el-s when I hit really hard.
not sure about the spin but arc was there, my point is im not sure if it was spin giving it the arc. it felt like that.
I would recommend it to people who want a less bouncy tenergy 05fx, I did not have the 05fx return of serve problems I normally have.
for me it is definitely an improvement on el-s
not as good in short game and serve return but I found it better for driving and looping, somehow a bit easier to use.

I like it enough to try it and im going to get my son to try it too.

been using h3n recently and I found it easy to block with which I thought would be harder than with h3n.
I used in it mega max but would probably try it thinner especially on bh

This definitely suited the blade which is controllable but fairly stiff, it might feel mushy on softer blades.

Edited by mog1111 - 07/24/2017 at 7:03am