Nittaku Acoustic vs Nittaku Acoustic Carbon

Nittaku Acoustic vs Nittaku Acoustic Carbon

Appearance : Acoustic Carbon reserve the appearance characteristic of Acoustic, there is no changes of handle design as well, only added “Carbon” wording after “Acoustic”. The handle color of Acoustic Carbon is lighter in yellow color as compared to Acoustic.

a). Packing

 Left: Acoustic, Right: Acoustic Carbon

b). Blade appearance

Left: Acoustic, Right: Acoustic Carbon

c). Handle
Acoustic carbon handle's color is lighter in yellow.

Wood Construction: There are no changes in the wood material, but the thickness of each layer has been adjusted. Acoustic Carbon’s outer layer and 3^rd layer are quite similar with Acoustic, however the core ply is thinner in Acoustic Carbon.

The FE Carbon layer is placed at 2^nd layer, Nittaku did not locate the Carbon layer close to inner core, and this has reserve the room for upgrade in the future.  Thicker outer layer provide buffer when direct contact with ball, increase its control ability and avoid ball bounce too fast which caused by the rigidity of carbon layer under small force situation. When bigger force is applying, the function of carbon layer starting to work and ball will bounce out very fast, although second bounce from the table do not have obvious drop symptom, however the control of arc and landing are more stable. One of the reasons Nittaku design Inner Core layer thinner is to compensate with rigidity of Carbon layer.

Up: Nittaku Acoustic

Bottom: Nittaku Acoutic Carbon

Nittaku Acoustic (5.5mm~5.9mm)

Nittaku Acoustic Carbon (< 5.5mm)

Generally, by comparing both version of Acoustic blade, we can say Acoustic Carbon is an upgraded version from Acoustic, but more practically it provide different feel from previous model. Acoustic Carbon not only more powerful but is a more balancing blade in terms of overall perspective.

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