Head PerfectControl 16 vs Volkl Power-Fiber II 17

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

  PerfectControl 16688th

  Power-Fiber II 17675th

• Easier on my arm

  PerfectControl 1677th

  Power-Fiber II 17138th

• More control, less launch

  PerfectControl 16738th

  Power-Fiber II 17695th

• More power and depth

  PerfectControl 1667th

  Power-Fiber II 1779th

• Plays the same for longer

  PerfectControl 16130th

  Power-Fiber II 17114th

• Lasts longer before it breaks

  PerfectControl 16519th

  Power-Fiber II 17687th

• Best feel and touch

  PerfectControl 1667th

  Power-Fiber II 1782nd

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 PerfectControl 16 in full Power-Fiber II 17 in full