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Gosen Compositemaster II 16 vs Prince Premier Touch 15L

Compositemaster II 16 leads on 5 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is ball bite, where Premier Touch 15L is 60 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Gosen

Compositemaster II 16

Nylon · 16 ga

Prince

Premier Touch 15L

Nylon · 15L ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
15114th pct
15315th pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
2431st pct
2432nd pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
9386th pct
9276th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
4.543rd pct
4.440th pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.3523rd pct
0.46463rd pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.07921st 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 Compositemaster II 16 at 52 lb

String Premier Touch 15L at 53.7 lb 24.4 kg

Coming from Premier Touch 15L at 52 lb

String Compositemaster II 16 at 51.5 lb 23.4 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.

Compositemaster II 16 mains / Premier Touch 15L crosses

Stiffness15th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss31st pct · 1 measured
Energy return82nd pct · 1 measured
Spin potential41st pct · 1 measured
Ball bite7th pct · 1 measured
String friction35th pct · 1 measured

Premier Touch 15L mains / Compositemaster II 16 crosses

Stiffness15th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss32nd pct · 1 measured
Energy return80th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential41st pct · 1 measured
Ball bite54th 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.

Compositemaster II 16

~31 hours of play

Premier Touch 15L

~30 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Gosen Compositemaster II 16 Nylon16find15124934.50.3520.079
Prince Premier Touch 15L Nylon15Lfind15324924.40.4640.106

Add a third string Compositemaster II 16 in full Premier Touch 15L in full