Voltric 50 E-Tune
Model VT-50ETN
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Voltric 50 E-tune: Yonex’s E-tune system on a Taiwan-made Voltric, last of the three 50s
The E-tune system below the flagships
Yonex described the Voltric 50 E-tune in one line: “Offensive, hard-hitting model equipped with the E-tune system.” Yonex had introduced E-tune on two Japan-made racquets, the Voltric 70 E-tune of 2014 and the 80 E-tune of 2015. In early 2016 its international Voltric list added two more, item VT50ETN and the Voltric 8 E-tune, and the 50 E-tune took the place of the orange Voltric 50 Neo. It was the third racquet Yonex sold as a Voltric 50 and the last; the 2013 original and the Neo have their own pages.
A new spec line, without the Tri-Bumper
The 50 E-tune is first documented on Yonex’s international Voltric list of March 5, 2016; the list of February 4 still shows the 50 Neo, and no Yonex launch release or date is documented. Yonex lists a frame of high-modulus graphite, Sound Filter and tungsten, a high-modulus graphite shaft, stiff flex, and 4U (average 83 g) or 3U (average 88 g) with grips G4 or G5; Yonex recommends 19–26 lb for the 4U and 20–27 lb for the 3U. Its technology list names the Tri-Voltage System, Sound Filter, E-tune, Isometric, a new grommet pattern (“single-pass grommet hole construction”), the Aero+Box frame, the built-in T-joint and the Power Boost Cap. Neither list names the Tri-Bumper of the two earlier 50s.
No documented player
No Yonex product page, tournament report or news item names a player on the Voltric 50 E-tune. The tour record of the E-tune name belongs to the Japan-made 70 and 80 E-tunes, which have their own pages.
Dark Gun, one code, three E-tune siblings
Yonex listed one color for item VT50ETN, Dark Gun; Yonex China gave it as 深枪灰 (dark gunmetal, color 277) under its own code VT50ETNEX. No limited or player edition is documented. It replaced the Voltric 50 Neo (VT50NEO, orange), whose spec line names the Tri-Bumper. Its E-tune siblings are the Japan-made Voltric 70 E-tune (white, medium flex) and 80 E-tune (Deep Red, stiff), and the Voltric 8 E-tune, yellow and rated medium flex, which arrived on Yonex’s list with it. Yonex China described the 50 E-tune as fitted with the E-tune system “to raise smash energy” (提升杀球能量).
Two years on Yonex’s list, outside Japan
The 50 E-tune was sold in markets outside Japan: Yonex Japan’s racquet list of January 2018 carries the 70 and 80 E-tunes but not the 50. Yonex China listed it in mid-2017 at a suggested retail price of 950 yuan, against 1,830 yuan for the 80 E-tune, and filed it as a smash-type racquet for intermediate players. Yonex’s international list still shows it on January 19, 2018, the last list known to include it, so 2018 is the last year it is documented on sale new. No verified sales are recorded yet.
Mix-ups more than fakes
No counterfeit of the Voltric 50 E-tune is documented. The practical risk is identity: a listing that says only “Voltric 50” may be the 2013 original (Pearl Red/White), the 50 Neo (orange) or this Dark Gun frame, and all three are stiff and offered in 4U and 3U. The Voltric 8 E-tune shares the E-tune name and, by Yonex China’s pages, the Taiwan origin, but it is yellow and medium flex.
The last 50, and E-tune on a Taiwan frame
The 50 E-tune closed the run of Voltric 50s that began in 2013 and, with the Voltric 8 E-tune, took the E-tune name from Yonex’s Japan-made 70 and 80 to Taiwan-made frames. Yonex’s pages for it name the E-tune system without listing the parts supplied with it, so what a complete frame came with is not documented. It left Yonex’s international list in 2018, the year the 70 and 80 E-tunes also ended.
Yonex’s item code is VT50ETN (Yonex China: VT50ETNEX). Yonex’s pages give stiff flex, 4U (average 83 g) or 3U (average 88 g) with grip G4 or G5, a frame of high-modulus graphite, Sound Filter and tungsten, a high-modulus graphite shaft and the color Dark Gun; Yonex China gives Taiwan as the place of manufacture. Yonex recommends 19–26 lb for the 4U and 20–27 lb for the 3U. An orange frame coded VT50NEO is the 2014 Voltric 50 Neo, a Pearl Red/White frame coded VT50 the 2013 original, and a yellow frame coded VT8ETN the Voltric 8 E-tune. Yonex’s own checks: the production code on the cap above the handle is laser-engraved rather than printed, the hologram sticker resists peeling, and the YONEX logo is printed cleanly.
Look for the code VT50ETN and the Dark Gun finish; the two earlier Voltric 50s share the number, the stiff flex and the weight classes. Ask whether any E-tune parts come with the frame, and do not assume that parts made for the Japan-made 70 or 80 E-tune fit it. Check the head, the grommets and the T-joint of this stiff frame for cracks. Yonex documents no player for it, so treat any tour connection as unproven without a Yonex source.