RE: Carbon vs. Alunimun vs. Wood
well nick it all depends on what shoots good for you. I grew up shooting a Ben person with 2016 XX75 easton aluminums. I shot these until my fingers were raw, until one day I went into the local archery shop and they had a sale on wooden arrows so I bought a dozen. Needless to say they ended up as fire wood. I got so use to how the aluminum arrows shot so instead of learning the way a wooden arrow shoots I gave up and stuck with what I started with and what I knew would bag me something. Sop I think you should try Carbon, Aluminum, and all arrows for that matter and see what shoots better.
But be advisedwood arrows have week spines so the arrow will flex more causing the arrow to be unaccurate. Carbons being so light weight can be dramatically effected by gusts of wind. so my opinion would be Aluminum is the way to go.