Most realistic/smooth turbo

[Thegreatthor]

I'm thinking of a new turbo, planning to spend a bit of time on it the next 3 months. Could anyone recommend one. Like the look of the elite muin or the kinetic road machine. Anyone got these and can offer an opinion. Other suggestions very welcome. The most important thing for me is a good smooth road feel!

 

[Fisheh]

I have an Elite Supercrono Digital Mag Elastogel Trainer, it is very smooth and gives a good feeling . It is the only trainer that I have ever used so can not compare it.
I can stand and throw anything at it and it is smooth and never slips but a trainer that feels like the road? For the roads in Stoke you would gave to have a hammer programmed to thump the front wheel every few minuets :-).
On a serious note I use it with zwift and it's a very good ride , and workout. I was going to look at going full VR with a smart trainer but I think the benefits of continual resistance outweigh the varying loads of the smart trainer, you have to work real hard in zwift to go uphill with a manual trainer .

 

[HLaB]

The muin is smooth and importantly IMO (living in a flat) quiet; I also like thats its direct drive (no faffing about with a turbo tyre) but its quite heavily damped so you do a lot of work in the wee ring and don't get good speeds/distances. Speed/distance on a turbo is irrelevant anyway and you get an excellent work out with an estimation of what is an important measure (power). I think the Kurt Kinetic does a similar power thing.

 

[screenman]

CS-1000 for me good enough for Sir Chris, the one I currently use is 20 years old and it does get used.

 

[Chris432626]

I have a kurt kinetic and it's very good, the elite mag is good too. I had the elite prior to the kurt, I can't honestly say the more expensive kurt is worth the upgrade for feel but it does feel bomb proof.