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Head Lynx Tour 16 (1.30) vs L-Tec Premium 4S 16L (1.25)

Lynx Tour 16 (1.30) leads on 4 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is string friction, where Premium 4S 16L (1.25) is 28 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Head

Lynx Tour 16 (1.30)

Polyester · 16 ga

L-Tec

Premium 4S 16L (1.25)

Polyester · 16L ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
22993rd pct
23495th pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
3149th pct
3559th pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
8843rd pct
8739th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
6.181st pct
6.788th pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.51984th pct
0.47970th pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.08534th pct
0.0716th 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 Lynx Tour 16 (1.30) at 52 lb

String Premium 4S 16L (1.25) at 50.9 lb 23.1 kg

Coming from Premium 4S 16L (1.25) at 52 lb

String Lynx Tour 16 (1.30) at 53.2 lb 24.1 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.

Lynx Tour 16 (1.30) mains / Premium 4S 16L (1.25) crosses

Stiffness94th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss52nd pct · 1 measured
Energy return42nd pct · 1 measured
Spin potential83rd pct · 1 measured
Ball bite82nd pct · 1 measured
String friction27th pct · 1 measured

Premium 4S 16L (1.25) mains / Lynx Tour 16 (1.30) crosses

Stiffness95th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss55th pct · 1 measured
Energy return40th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential87th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite72nd 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.

Lynx Tour 16 (1.30)

~25 hours of play

Premium 4S 16L (1.25)

~22 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Head Lynx Tour 16 (1.30) Polyester16$12.0022931886.10.5190.085
L-Tec Premium 4S 16L (1.25) Polyester16Lfind23435876.70.4790.071

Add a third string Lynx Tour 16 (1.30) in full Premium 4S 16L (1.25) in full