Polish for me. Had an opportunity of buying between plasma, polish, and carbon juliets. Bought the polished ones even though they cost more than what I think is insane price for a pair of sunglasses. My most expensive one before this was a Revo w/c costs $249(which is pushing it really)
.................wish I didn't come across this forum and learned more about x metals My poor wallet
I lot of Oakley enthusiasts I know consider polished to be the x-metal counterpart to white O-Matter...i.e., if you're a douche, you wear polished x-metals. I know not everyone sees it that way, but it's enough to steer me away from that colorway.
I like the Plasma frame but if I really had to narrow it down to a certain look and frame it would be Polished all the way....Love the POP the Polished gives.
1.plasma (current gen) 2.carbon (both early and late) 3.polished 4. Xmetal ( only experience with early gen) The general consensus seems to be for xmetal but the xmetals that on the xmetals I own, the finish is really grainy and hollow feeling. It looks like the later generation xmetals are better so maybe I need to snag a pair of those. My favorite right now is the current gen plasma juliet. The finish has a nice satin feel to it. I just hope it doesn't tarnish.