Considering Adams a12OS - Same shit, different shovel?

[LarryLong]

I'm thinking about having a spare set of clubs to leave up at my BIL's place to save me lugging sticks around when I visit him, and to give his kids something to play around with if they develop an interest and decide not to play left handed like he does.

To this end, I started looking around, and it looks like I can pick up a set of Adams a12OS hybrid irons at an obscenely cheap price from rockbottomgolf. Probably Cobra Bafflers too, or Adams Super S, but I don't know much about the other two, so the a12OS set is leading for me right now.

Then I started thinking about my current set and whether I should think about replacing that with the Adams clubs and sending the current set up to the BIL. I kinda like my Nickent 3DX clubs and the hybrids have always been excellent, but they are probably approaching 6 or 7 years old and maybe I should think about a new set. I guess the Nickents are fairly shovelly, which doesn't bother me, and I'm led to believe that the a12OS would be even more so. I tend to be skeptical when people say there is a big difference between clubs, so I don't really get involved in the ho scene. Without the 2nd set idea I'd probably play my 3DXs until they fell apart, but I don't know if I'd be going past their shelf life at any stage.

So, for people that know about stuff like this, will I even notice a difference between the two sets if I switch? Is there likely to be any difference in distance control or dispersion of shots between the two? Has anybody used the a12OS hybrids and irons?

Should I go with the shiny shovels, or stick with the old faithfuls?

[benno_r]

If you are keen on some nickents, could make you up some 3DX pros, with Nippon 950GH stiff shafts.

In regards to using different irons - I use Ping i5's for 3 rounds a month while I am away, the Cobra Amp forged for a week while I am home, and to be honest I don't notice a major difference, maybe only for the first few shots or so.

[solarbear]

My brother has the Bafflers and while very ugly they are insanely easy to hit and long. The pervious model, th red ones, are a bit better looking than the curren ones and tthe Nippon shafts are nice.

[LarryLong]

benno, thanks for the offer, but I wasn't that keen on the 3DX pros. I've got the whacky 3DX hybrid set (the ones that came out with the 10-iron). Actually, come to think of it, I don't think I would buy a 3-P set of irons now. Hybrid iron sets all the way.

solarbear, thanks. I might have to do some more research on the cobras. I think the ones they are selling at RBG are the red ones, but there's no mention of nippon shafts (only stock, which I guess could be nippon).

[3Puttpete]

I work with a bloke who has the bafflers and reckons they're no good. Haven't helped him drop from rounds of 120 odd

I think I might try to talk him into letting me have them real cheap