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I've got one set of 50mm/25mm non-tubeless clincher carbon wheels with novatec d771/772 hubs for a couple of years now and they've been perfect. Genuinely never needed to true them and recently used them on a fully laden panniers 10 day tour around France and they're still perfect. I did ask them for 28h front and rear which they did at no extra cost.
A mate from my old work bought exactly the same and as far as I'm aware his are still going strong too.
Got a set of 50mm/23mm tubeless rim brake clinchers for my brother and they're still going strong after a year or so. They're on novatec 482 hubs or something like that...
Recently bought myself a set of 60mm/23mm tubeless rim brake clinchers for my bob jackson. I fitted them and heard a crack, inflated the rear tyre and noticed a bulge in the rim. Might've been me being cackhanded fitting the cassette before getting a tyre on, but got in touch, sent them pics of the crack and they asked for $50 shipping costs to send me a new rim. It took aaaages. To the point that I thought they'd done me over. And then it turned up one day. I built that onto the original hub and it's been fine since (not loads of miles on it yet).
All in all, would definitely recommend them.
Edit: all U shape, as they call them. Think that's their newer type, supposedly better in crosswinds.