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Gosen Nanocubic 16 vs Wilson NXT Tour 16

Nanocubic 16 leads on 4 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is ball bite, where NXT Tour 16 is 38 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Gosen

Nanocubic 16

Nylon · 16 ga

Wilson

NXT Tour 16

Nylon · 16 ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
18450th pct
18147th pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
2120th pct
2123rd pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
9276th pct
9270th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
4.030th pct
3.824th pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.40526th pct
0.46664th pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.10165th pct
0.12284th 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 Nanocubic 16 at 52 lb

String NXT Tour 16 at 52.8 lb 23.9 kg

Coming from NXT Tour 16 at 52 lb

String Nanocubic 16 at 51.2 lb 23.2 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.

Nanocubic 16 mains / NXT Tour 16 crosses

Stiffness49th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss21st pct · 1 measured
Energy return73rd pct · 1 measured
Spin potential29th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite33rd pct · 1 measured
String friction71st pct · 1 measured

NXT Tour 16 mains / Nanocubic 16 crosses

Stiffness48th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss22nd pct · 1 measured
Energy return73rd pct · 1 measured
Spin potential25th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite60th pct · 1 measured
String friction81st 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.

Nanocubic 16

~34 hours of play

NXT Tour 16

~33 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Gosen Nanocubic 16 Nylon16find18421924.00.4050.101
Wilson NXT Tour 16 Nylon16find18121923.80.4660.122

Add a third string Nanocubic 16 in full NXT Tour 16 in full