I must confess that I have never played with nor personally examined any Raschig pool balls so I am not qualified to comment on the play, or durability of the balls. From what I've previously heard, the quality is exceptionally high and the posts here coincide with that thinking.
I guess I'm a little more fussy when it comes to pool balls. I really can't imagine being able to distinguish any feel or difference playing with a set of Brunswick Centennial Pool balls and a set of Raschig pool balls. Sure, I'd imagine the acoustics would be different from different resin formula and maybe some other ingredients but not the way the balls rolled or behaved. A very important criterion for my selection of the best pool balls ever made is the appearance........the looks.....the colors........the design.......how the balls look under the lights on green felt..........how do the object balls appear when you view your shot selection and more importantly, assume your shooting stance and aim at the intended object ball,
The appearance of the object balls in any pool ball set is undoubtedly more important to me than one set having exceptional quality and the other has great quality. There may be some very slight difference between "exceptional" and "great" but I submit it would be indistinguishable. Now you can easily spot the difference when you are comparing two (2) pool ball sets that have "exceptional" and "average " quality but when the comparison involves comparing sets of pool balls that are "exceptional" and "great" quality, the difference between the sets will definitely be imperceptible. I submit the quality of The Brunswick Centennial Set made by Aramith is indeed very high quality pool balls. You cannot argue about the quality because it's really great.
In the area of overall appearance and design, well, that's an outright winner for the Centennial Set vesus the Raschig set. The Brunswick colors are more vibrant and richer, the object ball numbers are just flat out superior and the Centennial arrows are an exquisite feature to the design. When you get down to aim, short or long short, in between, especially on tough, thin cut shots, the Brunswick Centennial object ball design seems better suited for aim points. So hands down....in my opinion.....the Brunswick Centennial set blows away the Raschig set in the looks department.
Quality.....Raschig quality is unknown to me but I will defer to what's been posted and give it a slight edge over the Brunswick set. Again, I submit the difference in quality between these two sets would be imperceptible or very slight at best. Slight edge (assumed) Raschig.
Looks.....Nuf said.....Brunswick blows away Rashig .......Major Edge (genuine) Brunswick.
So in my book, it's not a tie.......in boxing I'd score the quality round 10-9 Raschig. In the appearance round, I score it 10-6 Brunswick.........I mean really....take a look at the Raschig balls and then the Centennial set and tell me truly.....honestly....that the Raschig set looks better????? Come on.....start a survey.....perform the man on the corner survey....get your eyes checked if you really think the Raschig set is more handsome, prettier, or more appealing.....it's just not true.
