Ascher Artura Pro x Simucube 2 Wheelbase Bundle Reviews

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Posted 10 months ago

“As i wanted to upgrade from my current entry-level DD wheel, i chose the Simucube 2 Pro that a lot of people recommended as "best of the best in sim-racing". Maybe i set my expectations too high, but unfortunately i was not happy with the results. I found the force feedback of the simucube 2 pro to be too smooth and synthetic to my liking. I don’t feel the roughness of sending the car around the track. I am coming from a budget-level Fanatec CSL DD base and decided to upgrade to Simucube 2 Pro + Ascher Artura Pro as everyone says Simucube is the top choice. So... the new base is stronger. I feel more details in the range overall. But Simucube's feedback feels bad. It is very rubbery, as if heavily averaged. Fanatec felt "raw", "in your hands". This one is just rubber everywhere, whereas i was expecting even better fine details and snappier raw output that would be similar to real cars. What i got is a smooth synthetic feeling. The CSL DD is obviously a worse wheelbase, it’s weaker and provides less detail in the overall range. But it feels more crisp. i play iRacing exclusively if that is of any value here. I already tried like 8-10 popular profiles for the SC2 and i tweaked every possible setting. I tried Morad's "Pro" profiles, i tried Luke's profiles, i tried like 5 more (can't say which ones because i cannot access TD's paddock section with the wheelbase back in the box). They are all better than the stock one, they feel different, but they are all synthetic and rubbery. With the CSL DD i feel the feedback "in my hands", i feel the car jumping off a curb, i feel the tyres grab on the tarmac as they stop understeering kinda close to what i feel in the real steering wheel, despite (as i said) all the shortcomings of the CSL DD - i accidentally run over a curb and jump off it, i get the sharp, crisp bump, then the wheel instantly (almost) goes empty for a fraction of a second, then i land with another sharp bump. With the SC2 i feel all of this in a overly smoothed fashion, as if i am trying to connect two magnets and they push against each other. It's as if i feel the feedback "somewhere far away inside the base", like listening to my favourite track with the speaker covered by a pillow. I do karting a couple of times per week on average and i find that CSL DD, even if weaker, is closer to the real wheel than the SC2 unfortunately, despite the CSL's graininess and lack of resolution. Same goes for visiting track days although i do it not as often. The best setting i found for the SC2 is literally "everything off" (recon filter off, damping 0, friction 0, inertia 0, slew rate limit off, ultra low latency doesn't really matter). But as long as the reconstruction filter is set to 0 or 1, the base has that annoying chirping rattling and vibration when i move the wheel. When the recon filter is on, FFB becomes rubber ranging from "slight rubber with rattling" to "full-on rubber without rattling”). Here are a couple of examples of “rattling / chirping”. More could be found online. This rattling is heard and felt in the wheel, it’s distracting and unenjoyable. https://youtube.com/shorts/NOat9QsloCs?si=CochImLnjfPXqG8 https://youtu.be/eQJSnlGVKPU?si=t6HV5OrsWP_tWrf4 Problem is, I have found no middle ground between "i feel rubber" and "the base rattles". Those two things overlap so when rubber starts going away, the base is already rattling. The only way to have the rubber go away is to completely switch off the recon filter, and then you get the rattling. Even with the recon filter on 1 it already rattles. I wish there was a better control over smoothing and the torque curves rather than "recon filter = 0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10" where 0-1 is rattling and 2-10 is rubber, with 2 having a bit of both. Unfortunately, the “reconstruction filter = 0 or 1” is the only way where i find FFB more or less enjoyable but the rattling / chirping is at the level i cannot agree with. Because of it i decided to proceed with the return.”

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Posted 10 months ago