Not likely. I remember Appleton saying on one of the TAR podcasts that he has had the same tip for over 2 years.
True.
I’m never too sure how people can have more than a superficial opinion on different brands of cues and tips. Most players that I play with have used the same cue for years and usually have a package of tips that they have used, also for years.
Many pro Snooker players use elk masters and triangle tips. However, even though playing hours a day, might change tips twice a year. They certainly don’t keep changing Cues.
It always baffles me how anyone has reasonable length first-hand experience with new cues and tips. It takes me a couple weeks to get used to the replacement tip....from the same box! And even then, it has been shaped how I like it and on my familiar cue, If I picked up the best cue with the best tip in the world, prepared by the best cue technician, I likely wouldn’t like it until I had played with it for a couple months. My cue and tip are like my worn out baseball glove...it’s ‘just right’...I can catch anything in it. I could try out the gloves of a hundred MLB players and not catch as well...drop.