Quietest Bearing/Throw?

[Shapapy (Scott)]

There was an older thread about this if you wanna skim through for suggestions.

Quietest yo-yos?

I’ve been meaning to open a topic on this and Mr. Smiley of the Pants made me think of it again: What makes a yo-yo quiet, and how? I have a few thoughts. First, material. The material the yo-yo is made of has a big effect: Plastic is more resonant and louder than Aluminum. Delrin is a little quieter (because it is denser, I think) but still has that plastic sound to it. Hybrid plastic with metal rings is almost always the loudest there is because that adds to the resonance of plastic – see…

I cannot stand a loud, scratchy sounding yoyo. I’ve traded away some because of this (looking at you, Sherpa!) OD 10 Ball bearings can be the quietest when lubed right, but man, they get ridiculously loud once that lube dries up.

One Drops are generally more quiet than the rest of my collection. It’s hard to say which one is the most quiet… My quietest non-OD throw is probably the Recess Komodo. It’s almost dead silent with a quiet bearing in it. Right now I have an Original Throw concave and they are really quiet and smooth.