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That's true, inasmuch as a HED3 is much better than a wire spoked wheel with the same rim and a much smaller area of round wire spokes, but the default aero steel spoke (Sapim CX-Ray) has pretty good aerodynamic performance across a range of yaw angles, and you only need 16 of them to make a usable front wheel. The MadFiber spokes have square corners, so they will have a lot of wake drag for their thickness, and will stall at a very low yaw angle. Just a bad idea all around. At least Lightweight manage to make their spokes more or less elliptical, and line up most of the fibres with the stress direction.