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Gosen AK Pro 16 vs Gosen Nanocubic 16

AK Pro 16 leads on 4 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is string friction, where AK Pro 16 is 12 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Gosen

AK Pro 16

Nylon · 16 ga

Gosen

Nanocubic 16

Nylon · 16 ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
17442nd pct
18450th pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
2225th pct
2120th pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
9381st pct
9276th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
4.337th pct
4.030th pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.39822nd pct
0.40526th pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.09353rd pct
0.10165th 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 AK Pro 16 at 52 lb

String Nanocubic 16 at 50.5 lb 22.9 kg

Coming from Nanocubic 16 at 52 lb

String AK Pro 16 at 53.5 lb 24.3 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.

AK Pro 16 mains / Nanocubic 16 crosses

Stiffness44th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss24th pct · 1 measured
Energy return80th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential36th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite23rd pct · 1 measured
String friction56th pct · 1 measured

Nanocubic 16 mains / AK Pro 16 crosses

Stiffness46th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss22nd pct · 1 measured
Energy return80th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential31st pct · 1 measured
Ball bite26th pct · 1 measured
String friction62nd 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.

AK Pro 16

~32 hours of play

Nanocubic 16

~34 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Gosen AK Pro 16 Nylon16find17422934.30.3980.093
Gosen Nanocubic 16 Nylon16find18421924.00.4050.101

Add a third string AK Pro 16 in full Nanocubic 16 in full