Calling HEAD Prestige experts

coolschreiber

Hall of Fame
Hello folks picked up a cheap racket. But need to know what it is exactly. It only says 'PRESTIGE TOUR' on the side of the beam. It seems the same size as my IG Mids and 18x20. Is this a variation of the PC600? Or a cheaper clone?
 

retrowagen

Hall of Fame
Yes, it is the Trisys 300 in US, Prestige Tour printed on the other side of the frame. Same racket as PC600, but with Suspention grip.
Trisys 300 was what it was called in the US market in 1993-1994, and Prestige Tour was its name in the US market in 1995-1996, if I recall correctly. And yes, it is basically a Prestige Classic 600 with a vibration-absorbing grip pallet system (which can prove troublesome in its older age).
 
It´s exactly the same frame as the prestige classic,but with a suspesion dampening grip system.
I used to play both racquets,the pc is a little bit stiffer and has a little more power,while the prestige tour is more flexible and soft.But the difference is marginal.
 
Trisys 300 was what it was called in the US market in 1993-1994, and Prestige Tour was its name in the US market in 1995-1996, if I recall correctly. And yes, it is basically a Prestige Classic 600 with a vibration-absorbing grip pallet system (which can prove troublesome in its older age).

What do you mean with "which can prove troublesome in its older age"?
 

OnyxZ28

Hall of Fame
Most of my Prestige Tours creak in the handle, a couple have had tra doors that fell out, some collars that cracked. Thankfully none where the SG fell apart completely.
 
Thought it is a prestige illness.my pt also crack above the grip..maybe the vibrations dont reach the grip and the frame has to handle it.
 

Colpo

Professional
Trisys 300 was what it was called in the US market in 1993-1994, and Prestige Tour was its name in the US market in 1995-1996, if I recall correctly. And yes, it is basically a Prestige Classic 600 with a vibration-absorbing grip pallet system (which can prove troublesome in its older age).

The pro shop where I worked carried the Prestige Tour variant as early as the first third of 1994, as the Trisys line was a 1993 make only. The earliest Prestige Tour models I believe contained the term "Trisys" on the side beams but the name had been by then retired as the principal name of their line.
 

ritton07

Rookie
The pro shop where I worked carried the Prestige Tour variant as early as the first third of 1994, as the Trisys line was a 1993 make only. The earliest Prestige Tour models I believe contained the term "Trisys" on the side beams but the name had been by then retired as the principal name of their line.

...is this an earliest Prestige Tour, then?



thanksss :)
 
The first prestige was called Prestige Pro and was introduced in 1987. But it was a prestige classic with a red black pj.I'm pretty sure the first racquet with the suspension grip dampening system is your racquet.Later it was called prestige tour 600.
 

retrowagen

Hall of Fame
The first prestige was called Prestige Pro and was introduced in 1987. But it was a prestige classic with a red black pj.I'm pretty sure the first racquet with the suspension grip dampening system is your racquet.Later it was called prestige tour 600.

The first Prestige Pro actually was introduced in 1986.

The Prestige Tour / Trisys 300 was introduced for 1993, and was the only Prestige mid with the Suspension Grip system, which substituted a plastic pallet which "floated" on rubber-like elastomers for the conventional polyurethane foam pallet normally used by Head.

The Trisys 300 was also available in a midplus headsize, which was a rather fragile racquet. One of mt hitting partners used this frame when new (I was playing with the 600cm2 mid at the time), and he had two separate examples implode on routine overheads hit squarely in the center of the strings. I seem to recall Paradorn Stripachan used the midplus, too.
 
The Prestige Tour 660..They´ve tried to transform the prestige feeling in a more forgiving racquet,but this does not worked.It plays not so swordlike and precise ,a bad racquet imo.And very unpopular
 
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