Gamma TNT2 Rx 16 vs Head FXP 17

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

  TNT2 Rx 16385th

  FXP 17502nd

• Easier on my arm

  TNT2 Rx 16256th

  FXP 17249th

• More control, less launch

  TNT2 Rx 16551st

  FXP 17557th

• More power and depth

  TNT2 Rx 16141st

  FXP 17157th

• Plays the same for longer

  TNT2 Rx 16216th

  FXP 17138th

• Lasts longer before it breaks

  TNT2 Rx 16396th

  FXP 17678th

• Best feel and touch

  TNT2 Rx 16187th

  FXP 17178th

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 TNT2 Rx 16 in full FXP 17 in full