NAOS 7000
ADNS 3310
Various Pads
Logitech G440 Mousepad: 10
Razer Goliathus Mousepad: 5
Details:
The Naos 7000 and Logitech G440 are both new, straight out of the box. I've updated the mouse firmware, and been testing it for about 30 minutes now. I have tested the G440 pad 10 times at 400 DPI, 5 times at medium lift-off distance, 5 times at absolute lowest lift off distance (somewhere around 1mm in my experience). I also tested with 800 DPI 5 times, and a supersonic 3000 DPI and 5000 DPI once each, both settings at the lowest lift-off distance. The SQAT score was ALWAYS a 10. Time will tell if the pad's readability decreases over time, but its tracking is 100% smooth by SQAT and my own person usage.
The Razer Goliathus pad was another story. Now, that pad has seen nearly daily use for two years, it is battle worn. But to my eyes, it is still in pretty good condition. My Roccat Kone XTD Optical has no trouble with the pad. I put the NAOS 7000 on it, with middle lift off distance (possibly a centimeter? It's dramatically different), and the cursor could not track for crap at 400 DPI. Absolutely terrible, moving inches would move the cursor varying lengths of a few pixels and half the expected distance. So I increased the lift off distance to 75%, and then it tracked without skipping. It felt like the cursor was actually travelling farther for equivalent mouse travel than the G440 pad at this point, but it was close. I ran SQAT 3 times at 400 DPI, and 3 times at 800 DPI. All scores for the Goliathus were 5/10.
Again, the Goliathus is well used, but I'm looking at it now, and it has held up extremely well. I'm venturing a guess the NAOS does not like its relatively deep honeycombs made out of resilient, semi-reflective, textured fabric. Even using the least traveled portion of the large pad yields 5/10, which leads me to believe it's not microwear, but who can say for sure?
For the original poster, I can confirm the NAOS 7000 just about flies across the G440's surface. In fact, the weight of the cord behind the desk, prior to using a zip tie, would drag the mouse up the pad. I am happy with this!