Since I' using H8, I will give you another point of view about these 2 rubbers

Used to use prott but now tt11 has proven customer service but if something goes wrong with another seller I'm sh** out of luck. Tt11 has been great to me and only has been nothing but great. Any issues get sorted out right away. DHS Shanghai factory or the headquarters I get from every winter from my friends who visit back home. So they just buy it there for alittle cheaper than fly back to USA with it. I have had 1 shitty rubber of h3 neo blue sponge provincial/national 40-42 degrees. I have bought a total of 40+ and sold 5 but I did the assembly for the people who bought it since I'm quite precise at gluing now. As for bubbling from boosting I haven't ran into those yet thankfully. I do practice and play alot so the rubbers definitely hold up. One year going strong for someone who got it from me and still loads of spin. 

But for the time being I have officially switched to the new tibhar nexy developed mx-k and mx-k hard!!! 

Yes, I believe Kasumi Ishikawa also uses H3 BS. Don't know if it's the DHS or the Nittaku version though. Shes been using it for a while now.

FdT

    

I have concluded testing the Nittaku H3TB and H8 and the outcome is some disillusionment regarding the blue sponged Nittaku H3. I have tried it on three different blades and I asked 4-5 fellow players to give it a go.

As I said at the beginning of the thread, I found the unboosted NH3TB to be rather useless for higher level play (=if you are skilled enough to topspin from both sides with reasonable speed and your game is not based on lobbing and pushing, waiting for your opponent to miss) and therefore I decided to boost the rubber. The H8 got the same amount of booster.

As I put the two rubbers on different blades I noticed that while the H8 retained the boosting effect very well, the Nittaku H3 lost it in direct proportion to the degree the dome subsided. The magic went away unfortunately. Yesterday it ended up being just as hard as it was in the beginning and it was very slow and spinless.  The H8 was still going strong.

I see the following differences between the  two: the H8 starts lifting the ball sooner and the trajectory of loops is a little longer and flatter than NH3TB. The NH3TB does not release the ball as fast and as a result, longer strokes are required. Loops travel a little higher over the net but dip a little lower after the bounce. This quality went away as the dome went down.

My conclusion is that the NH3TB is a rubber that needs some hardcore boosting to work properly.  In that state I can imagine that it might have an edge over a boosted H8 but given the amount of booster to be used and its price I think it is more economical to go with a H8 or even H3 Neo provincial and you will get the same results. Another thing is that the Nittaku seems to lose the effect of booster much quicker than the H8.

In summary, I do not think the NH3TB is as special as the halo effect around it may suggest. For players who do not boost I think there are plenty of cheaper Chinese rubbers with a similar performance. For those of us who boost, the H8 is clearly a more cost effective alternative of the two.

If somebody finds H8 very spinny there will not be any extra benefits to Nittaku's H3.

In the future I might boost NH3TB to see what happens if I glue it on when it really curls.

I think you are exaggerating in your assessment.

FdT