Is Gosen R4X 110 worth the shot?

The colors don't really matter

To be fair, aside from yellow, if you string way beyond the recommended tension of 23lbs, the non-white colours end up looking like a dull white with barely a tint of their original colour. At first glance it's just dull white, but there is colour if you look closely.

Left: NBG99 white
Right: R4X 110 taro/faded lilac/light purple

 

^True. Even yellow BG80 goes pale when you give it the beans...

 

23? Not a typo? For me it's min. 7lbs away from something useable.

 

Up to 32 I was with BG80 yellow always satisfied.

 

Well, not like anyone here would actually use that recommended tension. But here's a picture of the back of the packaging.

Recommended Tension: 18~23 (LBS)

 

And people like Mark are like "23lbs.? Pfft. 34lbs is where it's at!"

 

[MENTION=11783]Mark A[/MENTION], do you know of anything close to the R4X 110's glass cannon feel?

 

Aerosonic is quite glassy brittle feel.

 

Nothing I've tried has ever matched it (but then I haven't tried AS yet).

 

When I had it strung on the JS10 at 25x27 lbs, a day after it was 1400 Hz. And it hit like a stiff board requiring very quick and sharp handspeed to generate any power. But the crisp brittle feel was a whole new level I've never felt before.

 

I played a league match against [MENTION=113817]snowandlights[/MENTION]' team the other week and he had a JS10 with AS in it. Sounded absolutely incredible, especially when he told me it was "only" at 27.

Given that the 62F took 32/33 easily, I'm giving serious though to trying the AS at that tension...

 

Not sure that was me mate...I string at 31 and I've never used Aerosonic!

 

Gah! BC and their usernames. How could I dredge snowandlights up out of nowhere and it be wrong?!

 

So... I strung a BS12 with BG66UM @ 28lbs. (hand-crank overclocked to 32lbs). I hear it hit hard. I see I hit hard. I have a good level of control. But the feeling is so watery. Back to R4X 110 @ 28lbs.

 

If LN#3 can't match the Gosen, I'll be getting another reel of the latter. No way I'm going to run Aerosonic at 34!

 

I don't think the tradeoff for AS is worth it, No. 1 is already plenty.

I wouldn't mind trying the Gosen string, but I have a reel of No.1 still.

 

So? Buy it anyway! Or so visor or ch1k0 et al would say.

 

YOLO!

 

[MENTION=124379]mikomi[/MENTION] [MENTION=57143]visor[/MENTION]
$$$$$$$ that's why

 

Actually I (and I'm sure many of us) would like to see if AS can handle 34 lbs.