Head to head

Gosen OG-Sheep Micro 16 vs Pacific Power Line 16L

Power Line 16L leads on 3 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is ball bite, where Power Line 16L is 24 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Gosen

OG-Sheep Micro 16

Nylon · 16 ga

Pacific

Power Line 16L

Nylon · 16L ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
18450th pct
18148th pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
2123rd pct
1916th pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
9276th pct
9274th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
3.416th pct
3.416th pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.3594th pct
0.40929th pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.10570th pct
0.12183rd 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 OG-Sheep Micro 16 at 52 lb

String Power Line 16L at 53.2 lb 24.1 kg

Coming from Power Line 16L at 52 lb

String OG-Sheep Micro 16 at 50.8 lb 23.0 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.

OG-Sheep Micro 16 mains / Power Line 16L crosses

Stiffness49th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss20th pct · 1 measured
Energy return75th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential16th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite7th pct · 1 measured
String friction75th pct · 1 measured

Power Line 16L mains / OG-Sheep Micro 16 crosses

Stiffness48th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss18th pct · 1 measured
Energy return75th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential16th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite24th 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.

OG-Sheep Micro 16

~33 hours of play

Power Line 16L

~35 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Gosen OG-Sheep Micro 16 Nylon16find18421923.40.3590.105
Pacific Power Line 16L Nylon16Lfind18119923.40.4090.121

Add a third string OG-Sheep Micro 16 in full Power Line 16L in full