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Head to head

Gamma TNT2 16 vs Pacific Power Line 17

TNT2 16 leads on 3 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is string friction, where Power Line 17 is 15 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Gamma

TNT2 16

Nylon · 16 ga

Pacific

Power Line 17

Nylon · 17 ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
17139th pct
17442nd pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
2224th pct
2227th pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
9269th pct
9269th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
3.213th pct
3.518th pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.39923rd pct
0.37410th pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.12586th pct
0.10671st 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 TNT2 16 at 52 lb

String Power Line 17 at 50.2 lb 22.8 kg

Coming from Power Line 17 at 52 lb

String TNT2 16 at 54.3 lb 24.6 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 16 mains / Power Line 17 crosses

Stiffness40th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss25th pct · 1 measured
Energy return69th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential14th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite21st pct · 1 measured
String friction83rd pct · 1 measured

Power Line 17 mains / TNT2 16 crosses

Stiffness41st pct · 1 measured
Tension loss26th pct · 1 measured
Energy return69th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential17th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite11th pct · 1 measured
String friction76th 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.

TNT2 16

~33 hours of play

Power Line 17

~32 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Gamma TNT2 16 Nylon16$14.9917122923.20.3990.125
Pacific Power Line 17 Nylon17find17422923.50.3740.106

Add a third string TNT2 16 in full Power Line 17 in full