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

Head

Sonic Pro 17

Polyester · 17 ga

Weiss Cannon

Silverstring 120

Polyester

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
16532nd pct
16736th pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
5594th pct
5189th pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
8413th pct
837th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
3.927th pct
3.723rd pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.3422nd pct
0.39721st pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.08739th pct
0.10772nd 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 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

Stiffness34th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss93rd pct · 1 measured
Energy return10th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential25th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite3rd pct · 1 measured
String friction50th pct · 1 measured

Silverstring 120 mains / Sonic Pro 17 crosses

Stiffness34th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss92nd pct · 1 measured
Energy return9th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential24th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite17th pct · 1 measured
String friction67th 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.

Sonic Pro 17

~12 hours of play

Silverstring 120

~13 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Head Sonic Pro 17 Polyester17$8.2516555843.90.3420.087
Weiss Cannon Silverstring 120 Polyesterfind16751833.70.3970.107

Add a third string Sonic Pro 17 in full Silverstring 120 in full