A player mid-swing on a rooftop court in daylight, Hong Kong towers behind

noiSe Series

Every paddle has a voice.
We tune ours.

BAM is built to crack, a put-away you can hear from the next court. It ships now. TAP is built to hush, so the game keeps going past nine, and it is still in the cell. Two instruments from one Hong Kong workshop.

The category sells pop and apologises for it. Nobody ever sat down and tuned the thing.

Face stiffness, core density, the bond between them. Those decide what a paddle sounds like whether anyone chooses or not. We choose.

Close crop of a player's shoulder and back mid-rotation under floodlight contact · 4 ms
01where the category sits

One strike, four milliseconds, and a signature the maker never chose.

Almost every paddle on the market lands in the same narrow acoustic band by accident. The figures below are the published industry references we build against. Our own paddles get their numbers from an acoustic cell, and that test has not run yet, so you will not find a BainPower figure dressed up as a spec anywhere on this page.

1,150 Hz Industry typical strike Bright and carrying. The default voice of the category, arrived at by nobody in particular.
600 Hz Published quiet criterion The threshold quiet-category paddles are judged against. Lower pitch, shorter decay.
pending BAM & TAP, measured Cell test not yet commissioned. When the figures exist they go here, and nowhere before that.
02same swing, two voices

Illustrative reference traces, drawn from published category figures. Not a measurement of any BainPower paddle. Cell test pending.

02same swing, two voices

One rings. One stops.

BAM

The energy carries. The crack keeps going after contact.

TAP

The energy collapses. The note is gone inside the first beat.

Illustrative reference traces. Not a measurement of any BainPower paddle. Cell test pending.

Apartment windows overlooking a dark court at night
04one of the proofs

Tuning cuts both ways.

Courts get curfews because paddles were never tuned, and the window forty metres away pays for it. A brand that can make BAM ring on purpose can make TAP disappear on purpose. Quiet is what the same engineering looks like pointed the other direction.

Where TAP is up to
05where the voice comes from

You cannot tune a paddle from the outside.

Macro of woven carbon fibre twill under raking light
BAM edge guard and face, showing the composite and 16mm core callout
Macro of a perforated black grip wrap
Interior of an anechoic acoustic testing chamber
Kinetic T700 Composite, carbon and fibreglass
ithe face

A named grade, not a story

BAM's face is Kinetic T700 Composite, T700 carbon with fibreglass. T700 is a real Toray grade with a published datasheet, roughly 39% stronger in tension than the T300 used further down the market. We name it so you can check it. Face stiffness is the single biggest lever on pitch.

iithe core

Foam, not honeycomb

BAM runs a 16mm EPP foam core with expanded polypropylene cutouts, inside an integrated edge guard. Core density and the bond to the face decide how long the note lives after contact. A foam core damps differently to the honeycomb most of this category ships.

iiithe contact

Where the hand meets the note

Handle and wrap decide how much of the strike travels back into your arm instead of out into the air. It is the least glamorous part of a paddle and the one players actually feel on the two-hundredth ball.

ivthe proof

Measured, or it stays off the page

A voice only counts once an anechoic cell has heard it. Ours is booked into the plan, not the past, so every acoustic figure on this site is a published industry reference until then.

The full ledger
06the ledger

What is proven. What is still owed.

Most spec sheets in this category are adjectives. Ours is a ledger, and a ledger shows the open entries too.

named Face, Kinetic T700 Composite (carbon / fibreglass) A public grade with a public datasheet. Check it against ours.
passed Surface roughness Independently tested and within limits.
passed PA approval, BAM Approved.
in progress USAPA approval, BAM Pending, roughly two weeks out. Until the certificate is in hand no USAPA seal appears on this site or on any retailer listing we control.
named Core, BAM 16mm EPP foam, expanded polypropylene cutouts. Measured and printed values now agree.
included Protected by YAS, injury protection Ships with every BAM. Full terms and the claims route publish here before the first order leaves.
pending Acoustic figures, all models The anechoic cell test is not yet commissioned. Frequency and decay publish here the day the cell says so.

When the certification is earned and the figures are measured, they appear here first. Until then the gaps stay visible, because a tuned instrument deserves an honest score.

crack, or hush.

Pick your voice.

Two tuned instruments and one honest ledger. Be first to hear the measured figures when they land.

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