Head to head
Gamma TNT2 15L (1.40) vs Tourna Synthetic Gut Armor 16
Synthetic Gut Armor 16 leads on 4 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is ball bite, where Synthetic Gut Armor 16 is 14 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.
Measured, side by side
Bars are percentile against all 788 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.
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TNT2 15L (1.40)190th
Synthetic Gut Armor 16150th
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TNT2 15L (1.40)270th
Synthetic Gut Armor 16238th
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TNT2 15L (1.40)480th
Synthetic Gut Armor 16495th
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TNT2 15L (1.40)244th
Synthetic Gut Armor 16236th
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TNT2 15L (1.40)53rd
Synthetic Gut Armor 1644th
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TNT2 15L (1.40)139th
Synthetic Gut Armor 16143rd
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TNT2 15L (1.40)233rd
Synthetic Gut Armor 16214th
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 TNT2 15L (1.40) at 52 lb
String Synthetic Gut Armor 16 at 54.6 lb 24.8 kg
Coming from Synthetic Gut Armor 16 at 52 lb
String TNT2 15L (1.40) at 49.5 lb 22.5 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.
TNT2 15L (1.40) mains / Synthetic Gut Armor 16 crosses
Synthetic Gut Armor 16 mains / TNT2 15L (1.40) crosses
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.
TNT2 15L (1.40)
~38 hours of play
Synthetic Gut Armor 16
~39 hours of play
Both strings in full
| String | Gauge | Price | Stiff lb/in | Loss % | Power % | Spin | Bite COF | Friction COF |
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| Gamma TNT2 15L (1.40) Nylon | 15L | find | 181 | 16 | 93 | 5.7 | 0.447 | 0.078 |
| Tourna Synthetic Gut Armor 16 Nylon/Polyester | 16 | find | 172 | 14 | 93 | 5.9 | 0.475 | 0.081 |
Add a third string TNT2 15L (1.40) in full Synthetic Gut Armor 16 in full