What is "HIT" to you?

The different materials - most especially the wood - in the butt of various cues is bound to make a difference in the "feel" of a cue even with the same shaft. Different woods do vibrate, or resonate, at different frequencies. In general, historically great playing cue woods have been great "tone" woods used in musical instuments. Maple - think "Fiddleback", Ebony, Rosewood, etc.
Had a very interesting conversation about this very issue with Dennis Searing a while back. I'm a former musician, and he & I were able to find a lot of common ground about the positive effect of choosing the right woods.
 
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Well... it is like this. When I pickup a cue and hit with it, it feels so good. It feels like one with myself. It agrees with how I play. It does its job with perfection. It is well built and looks awesome.
 
:)Sadly it is not the same to all and you can not see the cue as you shoot. The hit of the cue that is best is the one that compensates for the bad habit we have and we all have them.

I used to let Tommy Kennedy go through boxes of tips. He would feel them, tap them, it was the sound for him. The only problem with that is the sound is made after it is to late, you have executed the shot.

"A Horse walks in a bar, bartender says-----------":)
 
For me, pp. 1 and 2 fit.
I cannot agree with a Lambros' approach. My last cue made a "ting", if I have stroked firmly, as my actual does. Both are very good hitter in my opinion. I think, its physically not possible for a cue to react the same way on the soft and the hard stroke.

The difference between the same shaft on different butts could result from the taper and the wood choice of the forearm.
 
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