I have tried a few ski's and for all around performance I keep going back to the stock ski's. The stock ski's do nothing great but they work in every snow condition, and I have not been able to match there all around predictibility with any aftermarket ski. I dont want to change ski's for every snow conditions.
SLP powder pro's. heavy hits blew the rubbers out of the pads, SLP said never had that happen, look at there catalog and there was a photo of a m7 bustin off a rock one limp dick ski? GUess his rubber blew out to. But never had that problem, SO welded a bridge accross the back so it would hold the rubber in, (come that way now) and like the ski in soft powder. Spring or setup powder the sled sidehilling suffers badly, to much effort to turn in either position and very darty on trail. But my big complaint is on setup snow when side hilling they will not hold there ground without the ski's turned up hill, when you turn up hill they buck the sled off edge.
Simmons Gen 1, side hill on anything but soft snow and there work to keep the sled on edge, to aggresive on the trail and bicyle the sled to easy. Hard as hell to turn at slow speeds.
Slydog, Should come with a Sergion Generals warning, WIll spit you off at anytime for no reason at all. Dangerious do nothing good but float at slow speeds in deep powder when going straight.
So I just replaced my clapped out stock ski's with a new fresh set of stock ski's. sold everything else I had.