Any of you guys have both or have compared one or the other with a friend's. I am just curious how diferent these two are. Some people i have talked to say these two are pretty similar. Your help would be greatly appreciate it. Thanks.

My Deep Purple is strong, gets into a roll very easily and needs oil upfront. Its a great ball that carries better than anything I have ever thrown, the OB surface was just too strong and too early for me, I went to 4000 and love it. But you have to know when to put it away. Very smooth hard arc motion, very controllable, great recovery and continuation. I have been scoring great with it as long as I put it away when I need too...

In response to the MB question. I drilled the TDP with pin up and MB at 70 degrees to get as much out of the ball that I could. Being lower RG, I did not want MB too close to VAL. With the Lucid being higher RG and lower differential, I did 45 degrees to get ball to read a little earlier. Higher RG balls and me usually don't fair well together. I was figuring taking RG and Differential of these two ball in consideration that they would have reacted similar with the layouts I used. I have my 508A drilled with same layout as TDP and it outperforms the TDP. I threw both TDP and 508A at 2000 abralon polished with snake oil.