First off--I don't own superlight wheels, though I have seen some of them in person, and ridden them
I want to be careful here as well, since a lot of this comes down to usage and preference, and I feel like Light Bicycle, Zen, DFS, and XMCS reps might call me out for these comments. It's my opinion that the H Works and similar hubs out there are not a higher-end product; they are more of a price-point product, and the ones designed to be lightweight are trading on stiffness and, ultimately, durability to achieve what they are doing. Rather than comparing these ultralight wheels to Roval or Enve, I feel like a more appropriate comparison would be to Extralite. What these companies have achieved is extraordinary--they have pushed the envelope for ultralight wheels and lead the market in that regard.
That said, you still need to take a step back and ask about the cost and if you were to make a wheel that was designed to stand up to race conditions, whether those are a cat 5 crit or a pro road race, if you would still design the same ultralight wheel. My observation about my wheels, which I believe are DFS XL rims on R3 Hubs, is that they are more flexible than I would like. Not in a way that is noticeable on the road, but clearly more flexible than my Roval or Ascent wheels. They did go out of true--something those wheels never do / did despite more mileage. Its my belief that for my use, the R2 hub would have been a better choice because of its geometry. With wheel stiffness resulting from multiple factors, including hub geometry, spoke count, and spoke type, it's generally hard to call out a specific property. However, between the R3 and R2 hubs, which have the same lacing pattern and spoke count, I believe I would have benefited from the R2 design's better bracing angle and more equal spoke tensions.
Compared to the 20/20 carbon spoke wheels I have seen, I believe my R3-based wheels are noticeably laterally stiffer, which would be going in the wrong direction, as I personally would prioritize stiffness and reliability over even 200g.
As for why I like the THR Industries Hubs, I think they are among the few (Chinese or not) that are comparable to the Enve Innerdrive, Vision PRS, and Roval Aero hubs in terms of helping build a high-performance wheel.
Maybe it would sound selfish but this is why i asked here about reccomendation. There are so many of option and brand that I don't even know what to choose nor I don't want to spend another month to choose. This is why i created this post. Since I am ambitious and want to know everything in my own on every topic but probably the differences of each wheels will be too small to feel them so spent a month to learn anything again of wheels and see the diffrence just stupid idea for me. I dont even know if aero wheels is good option if i don't ride at 35+km/h average speed.
I will be trully thankfull if you post few example with durable models with good weight and good money.
edit: what is the point of buying sub 1000g grams wheels if for example of course Enve SES 4.5 PRO weight are about 1300g(any many more from "top" western brands. How to compare chineese wheels to western brands in terms of stiffnes and bulletproof/tensioning the spokes? How chineese sub 1300g for 700-900$ are diffent than other western brand?
edit2: Since 600$ wheels vs 1200$ will have 10-20sec gains for 40km bike ride when I am pissing 2 times(1-2min loss) then I will probably lower my budget from 1000$ to sub 600-700. I am not sure if there is so much adventages to spend this amount of money for marginal gains since I am amateur - yesterday bike ride at my Corattec superbow world cup 2006 was 250km in 10.42h (stops for shopping,pissing, eating inluded)
edit3: I will use this wheels for probably max clearence so 38-40mm so i don't know if road wheels or gravel will fit
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