How good are IrPads compared to YoYoFactory or Yoyojam silicone pads?
Soft pads are superb for trick binds and very slick thin string.
Pads is pads.
But seriously, if you’re looking for incremental differences, IrPads are great. I’ve only tried the normal hardness but they were great. Satisfying binds.
Irpads are like, dedicated to making response, and is affiliated with YYR in a sense, so you know their pads must be at least decent 
But honestly, I’ve heard lots of good things about them; but I also heard somewhere that Yoyojoker makes some good response aswell…