Friend of mine, 220 avg guy, 2 hander, has iq tour pearl, 400a, and hyroad pearl.
400a is much cleaner thru fronts and way more angular in the back. Impressive really.
Then he gets the hyroad pearl and says it's even more than the 400a!!!
All are drilled pin up.
OK, I have the following:
o IQ Pearl (drilling out pin with middle finger CG kicked out, P2 hole),
o HY Road Pearl (Pin up in gripline CG kicked out, P3 hole)
o 400A (pin down under ring ringer CG kicked out a little, no weight hole)
I found the Hy-Road Pearl to match up much better for me than the IQ Pearl (but would like to drill a 2nd IQ Pearl pin up to give them a apples to apples look).
PM me in about a week and I will let you know how the 400A matches up as I just got it today for Christmas and have not thrown it yet.
BTW, a Totally Defiant might be worth looking at as it has one of the strongest backends around.
MK