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Head FXP Tour 16 vs Prince Premier Touch 16

FXP Tour 16 leads on 4 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is ball bite, where Premier Touch 16 is 15 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Head

FXP Tour 16

Nylon/Polyester · 16 ga

Prince

Premier Touch 16

Nylon · 16 ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
1173rd pct
14912th pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
2328th pct
2329th pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
9269th pct
9272nd pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
4.235th pct
4.132nd pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.42440th pct
0.44955th pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.10063rd pct
0.11076th 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 FXP Tour 16 at 52 lb

String Premier Touch 16 at 30.0 lb 13.6 kg

Clamped. The proportional answer was -12.2 lb, outside what most frames are rated for. These two are too far apart in stiffness to match by tension alone.

Coming from Premier Touch 16 at 52 lb

String FXP Tour 16 at 70.0 lb 31.8 kg

Clamped. The proportional answer was 83.1 lb, outside what most frames are rated for.

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.

FXP Tour 16 mains / Premier Touch 16 crosses

Stiffness4th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss29th pct · 1 measured
Energy return70th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential33rd pct · 1 measured
Ball bite42nd pct · 1 measured
String friction67th pct · 1 measured

Premier Touch 16 mains / FXP Tour 16 crosses

Stiffness5th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss29th pct · 1 measured
Energy return71st pct · 1 measured
Spin potential33rd pct · 1 measured
Ball bite52nd 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.

FXP Tour 16

~32 hours of play

Premier Touch 16

~31 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Head FXP Tour 16 Nylon/Polyester16find11723924.20.4240.100
Prince Premier Touch 16 Nylon16find14923924.10.4490.110

Add a third string FXP Tour 16 in full Premier Touch 16 in full