I have been aggravated by loud ball-return noise for my home table (Valley barbox) since I got the danged thing. Late last year I found plastic drop pockets, put them in a few weeks ago, and now I love it. One "plop" and nothing else. Now I can have it quite to not disturb others so much or I can listen to the TV at agreeable noise levels.
God I hated listening to every inch of roll and 3 drops in the home track. It grated on my soul. Coin ops in bars seem much more quite. There is background noise, and the ball only travels half the distance at a time (until you push the quarter thing and they all come at once which isn't too bad either).
Drop pockets are the way to go if your ball return is loud like mine was. Who'd have thunk that the balls hitting each other wasn't the most noisy part of playing pool at home?
Now I just gotta figure out something cool to use the ball return track for.
God I hated listening to every inch of roll and 3 drops in the home track. It grated on my soul. Coin ops in bars seem much more quite. There is background noise, and the ball only travels half the distance at a time (until you push the quarter thing and they all come at once which isn't too bad either).
Drop pockets are the way to go if your ball return is loud like mine was. Who'd have thunk that the balls hitting each other wasn't the most noisy part of playing pool at home?
Now I just gotta figure out something cool to use the ball return track for.
