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Head to head

Dunlop M-Fil Tour 16 vs Gosen Compositemaster I 16

They split the measurements 3–3. The widest gap is ball bite, where M-Fil Tour 16 is 39 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Dunlop

M-Fil Tour 16

Nylon · 16 ga

Gosen

Compositemaster I 16

Nylon · 16 ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
15925th pct
16533rd pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
2330th pct
2123rd pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
8955th pct
9270th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
4.337th pct
4.235th pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.42541st pct
0.3452nd pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.10063rd pct
0.08331st pct

Bars are percentile against all 791 strings, and the marked side is the one that measures better, which is not always the one you want. A firmer bed is worse for your elbow and better for your control, and no measurement knows which of those you came for.

Which one wins, by problem

Each string's standing on the site's rankings, out of every measured string in the database. This is where a comparison stops being arithmetic and starts being a decision.

Swapping between them: what tension?

Bed stiffness is published at one reference tension, so the only honest conversion is to scale it. These are starting points from 52 lb, not prescriptions. The calculator takes your own tension.

Coming from M-Fil Tour 16 at 52 lb

String Compositemaster I 16 at 51.2 lb 23.2 kg

Coming from Compositemaster I 16 at 52 lb

String M-Fil Tour 16 at 52.9 lb 24.0 kg

Hybrid: what if you used both?

Estimated, not measured. No hybrid combination has been tested as a bed. These figures are the two strings' own lab measurements weighted by how much of the bed each one actually is. Treat them as a guide to which way a pairing moves, never as lab data.

M-Fil Tour 16 mains / Compositemaster I 16 crosses

Stiffness28th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss27th pct · 1 measured
Energy return61st pct · 1 measured
Spin potential36th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite32nd pct · 1 measured
String friction57th pct · 1 measured

Compositemaster I 16 mains / M-Fil Tour 16 crosses

Stiffness29th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss25th pct · 1 measured
Energy return65th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential36th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite4th pct · 1 measured
String friction41st pct · 1 measured

Open this in the hybrid builder

Which goes dead first?

Estimated from tension loss, which is the only thing the database measures about ageing. This is when the bed stops playing the way you strung it, not when the string breaks.

M-Fil Tour 16

~31 hours of play

Compositemaster I 16

~33 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Dunlop M-Fil Tour 16 Nylon16find15923894.30.4250.100
Gosen Compositemaster I 16 Nylon16find16521924.20.3450.083

Add a third string M-Fil Tour 16 in full Compositemaster I 16 in full