ive had both poles side by side and what I found was this
both poles felt good in hand
both were around the same weight never mine what they say , when there in your hands there not far off
the bend of the poles were not that different if you want to be picky there about a 1.5. inch more bend on a right angle on the phoenix again not worth borthring about
so why did I buy a new slx last week
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because I know it will last my hubby 14 months and the phoenix is not cheap enough to take a gamble on as there not a lot in it when you get them both ready i
we treat our poles badly , throw them on the floor , never clean them , drop them , even had them frozen to the van for a week , never reprair them just tape them up none of this glue stuff , and guess what the slx keeps going and going and going
this is why ill keep buying the slx because its tried and tested and works well ive get to see a phoenix take the battering we give ours and live to tell the tail ill post some pics up later on how battered our slx is and it still doing 20 job aday ! and its knacked