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One friend recently switched from T05 to MX-P and said he loves it, and loves the performance he gets for cheaper price (and he tried Rasant and went back to paying for T05 a couple of years ago).

Another friend has Evolution, but not sure which one. One Monday night a few weeks ago, I straight setted him easily. On the Thursday night he filled in for the team we played, and another guy wanted to try his bat cos they had the same blade but not same rubbers. He played with T05fx and it gave him just enough extra control (and confidence) that he beat me 4-1. It was pure dumb luck that he played me like this and won, and now because of it....I'm gonna lose Leading Player for the season....probably by one match

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I'm always in the dark, but the Dark sheds lights upon everything!! Beauty is only pimple deep! Beauty is in the eye of the pipholder!
S/U 1: Blade: Bty Gergely . FH Black Andro Rasant 2.1 . BH Red Tibhar Grass Dtecs
S/U 2: Blade: Bty Gergely . FH Black Hexer+ 2.1 . BH Red GD Talon
S/U 3: Blade: Bty Gergely . No rubbers...thinking of adding Red Dtecs and Black Rasant
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This made me curious. No one's actually mentioned any PRICES, so I looked up a local dealer (Tenryu) which for me would be one of two ways to actually GET Tenergy. So..

Tenergy 05 would cost me RM228 - about USD56 including 6% GST. Any of the Tibhar Evolutions (MX-S, MX-P and EL-P) is RM180 (USD45 including 6% GST). Oh wait - there's the Evolution FX-P "National Version" with the German flag cover... RM217 (USD54 with GST). So Tenergy IS more expensive, but not by very much. In comparison - Rasant Powergrip is RM155 (USD38 or so), the Donic Bluefire Turbos are RM148 (USD37), Donic Barracuda (and Barracuda Big Slam ) is RM128 (USD32).

I guess I'm glad I'm not tempted to try any of these ultra-high-priced things... I do have a sheet of Rasant Turbo I haven't mounted yet (got it at a discount at the WTTC), and I might get a sheet of Tenergy 05 to see what all the hype is about. I must admit - those sheets of Hurricane 3 I bought turned out really nice - I'm currently playing with H3 on both forehand and backhand at the moment. Same vendor has it for RM45 (USD11.50!) a sheet.

Iskandar

Currently using JP02 as well and about to switch to Evolution, could somebody please provide insight to above question?

Thanks in advance.

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My friend was paying around $75-80 AUD and Evolution abut $50 AUD. So a fairly big difference here Isk.

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I'm always in the dark, but the Dark sheds lights upon everything!! Beauty is only pimple deep! Beauty is in the eye of the pipholder!
S/U 1: Blade: Bty Gergely . FH Black Andro Rasant 2.1 . BH Red Tibhar Grass Dtecs
S/U 2: Blade: Bty Gergely . FH Black Hexer+ 2.1 . BH Red GD Talon
S/U 3: Blade: Bty Gergely . No rubbers...thinking of adding Red Dtecs and Black Rasant
Aussie Table Tennis Shop / Aussie Table Tennis Facebook Page / Equipment Review Index / Read my Reb Report Blog: click here.

Evolution is about 60% of the price of Tenergy here (£31 v £50).

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FH Tibhar Evolution MX-P Max
BH Tibhar Evolution FX-S 1.8
185g

It's going back to 2013 but I posted the weight of an uncut sheet of EL-P & T05 and the EL-P was heavier at 70 grams uncut. The T05 was probably a light one.

viewtopic.php?f=44&t=22143#p241517

Did put a EL-P on a club mate's bat and it was around 72 grams uncut.

If you're concerned about weight suggest asking for a light max or a heavy 1.9

Re prices I'm currently paying €52 for a T05 and the Evolution sheets locally have increased slightly to €36 which is still a keen price. Club mate who used to use a 1.9 EL-P on the BH switched to a Super Defence and prefers it particularly with a drop in weight of a good 7-8 grams.

Wow.. I'm surprised by how little Tenergy costs here... If you ever come here on holiday it might be worth picking up a few sheets...

70 grams does sound terribly heavy. Most Chinese is 55-65, but 2008XP was 77, Whale 78.

Iskandar