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Head to head

Gosen Nanosilver 17 vs Kirschbaum Touch Multifibre 16

Nanosilver 17 leads on 4 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is ball bite, where Touch Multifibre 16 is 43 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Gosen

Nanosilver 17

Nylon · 17 ga

Kirschbaum

Touch Multifibre 16

Nylon · 16 ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
15720th pct
16228th pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
2225th pct
2330th pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
9598th pct
97100th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
4.543rd pct
4.132nd pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.39822nd pct
0.46865th pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.08842nd pct
0.11479th pct

Bars are percentile against all 788 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 Nanosilver 17 at 52 lb

String Touch Multifibre 16 at 51.5 lb 23.4 kg

Coming from Touch Multifibre 16 at 52 lb

String Nanosilver 17 at 52.6 lb 23.9 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.

Nanosilver 17 mains / Touch Multifibre 16 crosses

Stiffness23rd pct · 1 measured
Tension loss27th pct · 1 measured
Energy return99th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential42nd pct · 1 measured
Ball bite28th pct · 1 measured
String friction56th pct · 1 measured

Touch Multifibre 16 mains / Nanosilver 17 crosses

Stiffness25th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss28th pct · 1 measured
Energy return99th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential33rd pct · 1 measured
Ball bite60th pct · 1 measured
String friction73rd 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.

Nanosilver 17

~33 hours of play

Touch Multifibre 16

~31 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Gosen Nanosilver 17 Nylon17find15722954.50.3980.088
Kirschbaum Touch Multifibre 16 Nylon16find16223974.10.4680.114

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