ORIGINAL: Rick James
The only problems you have with this is is that you don't get the convenience of easy tuning like the regular X shoot through system. You can't put twists on a cable with your fingers like you can with a shoot through X system. The take up track on the one end also isn't perfectly balanced, I wonder what this would do for cam lean, etc.
You're right, you don't get ALL the benefits of the Martin (or Barnsdale) X-system. I have both bows (Martin and Barnsdale) and they are VERY nice for easy tinkering.
But, even though you can't put twist in cables without a press, you still get the benefits of NO CABLE GUARD! And yes, the takeup track isn't perfectly balanced, very similar to the Merlin Rapid cam shoot-through system of a few years ago (I owned that one too
). That Merlin system shot very well, and to me shot better than the cable-guard version of the same cam. I did quite well at tournaments with that configuration.
Darton's system of anchoring of both sides of the cam does help cam lean as it is (with the cable guard). I was up at the dealer this past week checking out the new Darton's. I liked what I saw. Much less cam lean than on any of the regular Bowtech Binary's on the rack. Their demo Guardian wasn't bad- had a little lean at full draw. Their Alleg was absolutely horrible at full draw. I was surprised they had it as a demo- it was THAT bad.
So I think the Darton system is better with a cable guard, and if you made it a shoot-through (which is VERY easy to do) it would even be better yet.