I thought the nsx-r was the best suspension for the NSX. designed for it...lots of good reviews about that. Moton and JRZ are fairly more expensive right? As far as hypermax...I am assuming it doesnt have as good of a center balance as the r type.
I tend to equate it more to driving ability, car setup, and actual use.
On one end of the spectrum- for mild street/track applications whereas your mostly running on street tires or r-compounds with relatively mild alignments, no transponder, and no real arguable *need* past perhaps just wanting the best brand shocks... quite likely for the majority of novice and intermediate drivers the Bilsteins, Toda, KW, Tein RA/RE/SR, HKS HII, Showa Type R, Koni's, Moton Club Sport, JRZ RS, Zeals, etc... is a good chunk of change... and more than adequate for everything except perhaps egos. Usually other factors come into play anyway than just performance- street-ability, cost, availability, etc... in this range.
IMO, to many enthusiasts on boards dwell on the brands- associating brand X or the most $$$ with being 'the best'. The only person that wins that game are the vendors. Every car, driver, and track is completely different... and if you really want faster lap times doing suspension tuning- there are no shortcuts in this game... buying shocks, springs, tid bits, etc... is just the tip of the iceberg.... and it is going to take testing, changing, testing, changing, and more testing. Thus, if you haven't yet invested even minimal track testing time already on a baseline... forget it... investing loads more money will simply yield back minimal results, if any at all. Mind you, there are a lot of BMW guys that win races on shocks that cost half as much as what many on here pay for their fancy JDM exhausts.
In short, my best advice I can give is to let need and necessity drive your purchase decisions in this space. Perhaps, the only mitigation being to shy away from the real low end crap in the $165 per corner and under range... (not naming any brands) but... there does come a point where you get what you pay for obviously. Otherwise, results are often subjective and incomparable- it is just like asking a room of audiophiles which speaker sounds best, or asking a high school class if abercrombie has the edge over lucky brand jeans.
Not convinced? If you think about it- everything out of a box is going to be a compromise in one form or another. It takes a lot more driving experience, tech skills, knowledge, and work to dial in multi-way adjust-ables shock and achieve faster lap times than most club racers give due credit- especially without the tools and resources the pros have. How many enthusiasts do you really believe that even know what four settings get adjusted on a fifteen hundred dollar per corner quadruple adjustable shock? No offense, but you know how many street guys I've talked to here on prime over the years that have told me Moton this or that is the best while they still refer to rebound adjustment as "the stiffness adjuster knob on the top of the shock". If that sounds familiar to you, than 9 times out of 10 spending 6 grand for motons pros or 20 grand for Eric's custom EMI suspension tuning is going to be a genuine waste of money lest some other factors quickly change in the equation.
Of course my knowledge of suspensions is very limited
Understandable. Relative to Eric Messley so is mine. It takes seat-time on-track to learn the dynamics, and R&D time to learn the technical skills... and it doesn't happen instantly. There is a time for everything.
If on the other end of the spectrum you ever begin to find yourself at the point whereas you are now calling them "timing devices" instead of "dampeners", have some pretty specific car setup requirements like slicks or complex surfaces and aerodynamics... are racing in a fully prepped car and want to win, have data logging capabilities, or are really willing to divert seat time to work on suspension tech and have that elusive sugar daddy... then by all means... it is possible to go faster in this space... it's all just time and money... so perhaps to a rare few 3-4-5-6-10 grand or more for multi-way JRZ or Moton Pro's, Penske, Koni's 80 series, Ohlins, Tein N1 duals, Zeal Super Functions, etc... may be neccessary to satisfy those goals with the added adjustment range and other features.
For example, on a club level this season I am working on some pretty specific driving and vehicle setup goals... and thus have moved to JRZ double adjust-ables with external canisters to meet my technical requirements- now re-built and re-valved with several sets of springs in the 14/16/18kg range... shock dyno testing, etc... however once again, it's just a small piece of a much larger puzzle, and I feel I have solid goals and perfectly reasonable expectations having experience on other platforms- again likely the exception.
Hope that helps.
