BallReviews
General Category => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: mr300ny on June 01, 2015, 09:04:53 PM
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Looking to replace my IQ Tour Pearl, best and most consistent ball I've ever owned. But has around 1,000 games on it so its just not the same anymore. Ball is discontinued so cheapest new I've seen on Ebay is $250 and not looking to spend that much.
What ball out there now is the closest to roll and reaction that the IQ Tour Pearl had?
Would prefer Storm but am open to other companies
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To be honest, I felt the IQ Tour Fusion was much closer to the pearl than the solid. I bet it would be a decent replacement.
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IQ pearl was a low rg, low differential symmetric. There are some other balls out there with those kind of numbers. Also, the Fusion is not a bad suggestion. I would take such a ball up to maybe 4000 with some polish to get something similar to the Pearl.
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http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/291479134173?lpid=82&chn=ps
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I have 3-15lbers in my pro shop NIB if interested in another IQ Tour Pearl.
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decent third choice would be the eruption pro hybrid and add some polish
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I'd think the Motiv Venom Panic or C300 Eruption Pro Hybrid would be closest.
I feel those 2 can cover the same conditions offer versatility depending on cover prep much like the IQ Pearl
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one guy i know who is pretty reliable with ball reactions has compared the venom chock to a tour solid with more continuation. if the panic is the "pearl version" i guess that would make it a tour pearl with more continuation....i have never thrown any of the 3 though and havent seen much of the panic in person
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Outside of Storm, I would agree with others in the Motiv Panic being the closest.
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If the Panic is as close as you guys seem to think (and numberwise I agree) why do you think the panic doesn't seem to be nearly as well received as the IQTP? Or is it just the few people I know who have just though it was ok but nothing special?
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If the Panic is as close as you guys seem to think (and numberwise I agree) why do you think the panic doesn't seem to be nearly as well received as the IQTP? Or is it just the few people I know who have just though it was ok but nothing special?
Good question that I don't have an answer to. I love mine (particularly on house shots) and my teammate loves his. It's been an absolute house shot killer for me, the rare ball that seems to work at any house I take it to. It isn't as useful for me on sport shots, but I also haven't played with the surface at all to smooth it out a bit for sport. I like it too much on house shots to mess with it.
That said, I've only seen 1 or 2 other people that have one, compared to many Tags and Shocks.
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If the Panic is as close as you guys seem to think (and numberwise I agree) why do you think the panic doesn't seem to be nearly as well received as the IQTP? Or is it just the few people I know who have just though it was ok but nothing special?
I have had the IQT Pearl and have the Venom Shock.
While the Shock's are equivalent to the IQ Tour series, their coverstocks are not as strong, in my opinion, as the R2S on the IQT series.
My Shock is a control ball on medium-light oil patterns; my IQTP was never a control ball, even on medium oil.
If I try to use my Shock on medium oil, it quickly becomes almost a skid/flip ball, even with the 4000 grit surface (which I now refresh every league session). Every Venom Panic I have seen even on medium-light oil is skid/flip in nature, whose backend is only softened by a speed dominant release.
Don't forget that a ball's tendency to arc or skid/flip is more governed by the bowler's release: speed dominant or rev dominant.
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I've been thinking about this f or a while. I wonder how close a Punch Out would get if the drilling angle was the same as the one you used with a larger VAL angle and the pin around 2 inches. I would think this would help the ball be more dolly and a smoother backend than a typical Punch Out. The IQ Tour Pearl had a more stable motion than the Punch Out.
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I would think an Arson Low-Flare (the original pearl, not the solid) would be the closest. When that ball came out it seemed like an obvious response from EBI to make a ball close to the IQ Tour Pearl.
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Perhaps that ball is in the range of a IQ Tour Pearl, but I don't think the cover is as strong as the Storm covers.