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Gosen Polylon Comfort 16 vs Kirschbaum Touch Turbo 16L (1.275)

They split the measurements 3–3. The widest gap is tension loss, where Touch Turbo 16L (1.275) is 8 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Gosen

Polylon Comfort 16

Polyester · 16 ga

Kirschbaum

Touch Turbo 16L (1.275)

Polyester · 16L ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
18957th pct
19664th pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
5494th pct
4986th pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
8310th pct
8516th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
5.569th pct
5.467th pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.40225th pct
0.40326th pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.0739th pct
0.07513th 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 Polylon Comfort 16 at 52 lb

String Touch Turbo 16L (1.275) at 48.2 lb 21.9 kg

Coming from Touch Turbo 16L (1.275) at 52 lb

String Polylon Comfort 16 at 54.1 lb 24.5 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.

Polylon Comfort 16 mains / Touch Turbo 16L (1.275) crosses

Stiffness59th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss92nd pct · 1 measured
Energy return13th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential68th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite25th pct · 1 measured
String friction10th pct · 1 measured

Touch Turbo 16L (1.275) mains / Polylon Comfort 16 crosses

Stiffness61st pct · 1 measured
Tension loss89th pct · 1 measured
Energy return13th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential68th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite25th pct · 1 measured
String friction13th 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.

Polylon Comfort 16

~12 hours of play

Touch Turbo 16L (1.275)

~14 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Gosen Polylon Comfort 16 Polyester16find18954835.50.4020.073
Kirschbaum Touch Turbo 16L (1.275) Polyester16Lfind19649855.40.4030.075

Add a third string Polylon Comfort 16 in full Touch Turbo 16L (1.275) in full