Head to head

Gamma Zo Tour Rough 16 vs Gosen Lumina Spin 16L (1.26)

Lumina Spin 16L (1.26) leads on 3 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is string friction, where Lumina Spin 16L (1.26) is 19 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Gamma

Zo Tour Rough 16

Polyester · 16 ga

Gosen

Lumina Spin 16L (1.26)

Polyester · 16L ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
18754th pct
17845th pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
4987th pct
5088th pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
8628th pct
8628th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
6.180th pct
6.687th pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.50580th pct
0.49174th pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.08331st pct
0.07412th 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 Zo Tour Rough 16 at 52 lb

String Lumina Spin 16L (1.26) at 54.5 lb 24.7 kg

Coming from Lumina Spin 16L (1.26) at 52 lb

String Zo Tour Rough 16 at 49.6 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.

Zo Tour Rough 16 mains / Lumina Spin 16L (1.26) crosses

Stiffness50th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss87th pct · 1 measured
Energy return28th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential81st pct · 1 measured
Ball bite79th pct · 1 measured
String friction25th pct · 1 measured

Lumina Spin 16L (1.26) mains / Zo Tour Rough 16 crosses

Stiffness48th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss88th pct · 1 measured
Energy return28th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential86th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite75th pct · 1 measured
String friction16th 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.

Zo Tour Rough 16

~14 hours of play

Lumina Spin 16L (1.26)

~14 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Gamma Zo Tour Rough 16 Polyester16find18749866.10.5050.083
Gosen Lumina Spin 16L (1.26) Polyester16Lfind17850866.60.4910.074

Add a third string Zo Tour Rough 16 in full Lumina Spin 16L (1.26) in full