Dunlop X-Life Synthetic 15L vs Prince Recoil 16

Measured, side by side

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.

• More spin and shape

  X-Life Synthetic 15L622nd

  Recoil 16637th

• Easier on my arm

  X-Life Synthetic 15L289th

  Recoil 16287th

• More control, less launch

  X-Life Synthetic 15L505th

  Recoil 16512th

• More power and depth

  X-Life Synthetic 15L292nd

  Recoil 16289th

• Plays the same for longer

  X-Life Synthetic 15L218th

  Recoil 16256th

• Lasts longer before it breaks

  X-Life Synthetic 15L388th

  Recoil 16343rd

• Best feel and touch

  X-Life Synthetic 15L294th

  Recoil 16293rd

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.

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.

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.

Both strings in full

Add a third string X-Life Synthetic 15L in full Recoil 16 in full