I tested the SSP, Threat and the Super Carbide yesterday on both wood and synthetics.

The SSP worked very well for me on wood lanes.  The oil was a little shorter, there wasn't any carry down and it didn't near the violent reaction on the break point on wood. I like to stand left and throw right so the SSP works very well for me when there isn't any carry down and thee's a defined break point.  The cheap oil they use on bsae pushes to easily so the carrydown develops to quickly causing a very over under condition. This is where the Threat works very well.  The Threat worked very well on both the synthetics and the wood.  The back end is not as strong as the SSP, but I don't expect it to.  Being a particle pearl, it does work a little better in the carry down then the SSP.  Thats another erason I want to ry the Silver Streak Solid. But the Threat wsa very consistant on both wood and synthetci lane conditions, though you do look like a craker with the SSP.  In Fremont, I never saw Pchee2 struggle with the Threat.  It wsa his go to ball.  But when Pchee2 and I decided to test our SSPs together, he could only spray the lanes because of the strength of the SSP.  I had much more control and I could not get the SSP to flip near as much as Pchee2 did.  600 revs and 19 MPH ball speed will do that I compared the SSP with the XL while I ws up there and though the XL carried better, the SSP wsa a lot stronger.

Then I bought out the Supr Carbide.  I have four drilled differently with different surface preps.  I used a Supre Carbide drilled similar in box condition, light buff, and on the frsh oil shot, neither the Threat or the SSP ws in the same ball park. Pchee2 could never spreay the lanes with the Super carbide, but the Super carbide read the break point extremely well without over reacting, was tremendous in the carry down and the hitting sound and carry was far superior to either ball.  but I posted this before about the Super Carbide. The only bowling balls I throw now that might seem to hit as harder or harder then Lane 1 now, is the Lanemasters bowling balls.  They hit hard, read hard or at least sound like it.

If anyone would like me to compare the SSP or the Sonic X to any othre bowling ball I have please let me know.  I will not compare any bowling balls that I don't own or throw myself.

V/R,
Nicanor

Edited on 5/3/2003 7:50 AM

Philosophy Side Step:
CYR and Pchee2,

I have tried some of these 5x5 type of drillings and, in general, I find them far too snappy and lacking in any sense of control; kind of like CYR indicated in his mini-comparison above.

I've never even dared tried to drill up a Silver Streak solid although I have one; going to give to a friend who's a fluffer for Knoxville. Anyways,
Recently I have tried an old friend drilling to reduce the backend and get a handle on some control, since the lanes I've been bowling on have been so darn dry lately.

3x5 or 3x5.5:
It seems that since most solids I use are shined anyway, this drilling seems to help them burn up enough in the midlane and the angle, around 110 degrees helps reduce the backend, where as stacked drilling, be they 4x4, 5x5 or 6x6, all make for incredibly hard to control snaps, some larger, some smaller. In fact, I'm going to try this on a few more balls. It seems to have worked on an Igniter
and a Tornado (which can be very flippy and strong). I'm having a Power Groove drilled up this week; it's supposed to be much stronger than its specs indicate and I think I'm going to try this type of drilling on it also.