Head Fibergel Spin 16 vs Head Synthetic Gut 16

Measured, side by side

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.

• More spin and shape

  Fibergel Spin 16603rd

  Synthetic Gut 16598th

• Easier on my arm

  Fibergel Spin 16252nd

  Synthetic Gut 16280th

• More control, less launch

  Fibergel Spin 16578th

  Synthetic Gut 16531st

• More power and depth

  Fibergel Spin 16185th

  Synthetic Gut 16219th

• Plays the same for longer

  Fibergel Spin 16260th

  Synthetic Gut 16232nd

• Lasts longer before it breaks

  Fibergel Spin 16518th

  Synthetic Gut 16562nd

• Best feel and touch

  Fibergel Spin 16221st

  Synthetic Gut 16243rd

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.

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.

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.

Both strings in full

Add a third string Fibergel Spin 16 in full Synthetic Gut 16 in full