Head to head
Head Sonic Pro 17 vs Weiss Cannon Silverstring 120
Sonic Pro 17 leads on 4 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is string friction, where Sonic Pro 17 is 33 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.
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.
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Sonic Pro 17544th
Silverstring 120581st
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Sonic Pro 17354th
Silverstring 120378th
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Sonic Pro 17462nd
Silverstring 120445th
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Sonic Pro 17514th
Silverstring 120587th
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Sonic Pro 17736th
Silverstring 120709th
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Sonic Pro 17304th
Silverstring 120598th
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Sonic Pro 17521st
Silverstring 120579th
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 Sonic Pro 17 at 52 lb
String Silverstring 120 at 52.3 lb 23.7 kg
Coming from Silverstring 120 at 52 lb
String Sonic Pro 17 at 51.9 lb 23.5 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.
Sonic Pro 17 mains / Silverstring 120 crosses
Silverstring 120 mains / Sonic Pro 17 crosses
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.
Sonic Pro 17
~12 hours of play
Silverstring 120
~13 hours of play
Both strings in full
| String | Gauge | Price | Stiff lb/in | Loss % | Power % | Spin | Bite COF | Friction COF |
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| Head Sonic Pro 17 Polyester | 17 | $8.25 | 165 | 55 | 84 | 3.9 | 0.342 | 0.087 |
| Weiss Cannon Silverstring 120 Polyester | — | find | 167 | 51 | 83 | 3.7 | 0.397 | 0.107 |
Add a third string Sonic Pro 17 in full Silverstring 120 in full