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IsoSpeed Axon Mono 16L vs Luxilon Monotec Supersense 16L/1.25

Axon Mono 16L leads on 5 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is energy return, where Monotec Supersense 16L/1.25 is 37 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

IsoSpeed

Axon Mono 16L

Polyester · 16L ga

Luxilon

Monotec Supersense 16L/1.25

Polyester · 16L ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
20068th pct
21079th pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
3457th pct
4884th pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
8953rd pct
9490th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
3.213th pct
2.12nd pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.38314th pct
0.3625th pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.11982nd pct
0.17296th 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 Axon Mono 16L at 52 lb

String Monotec Supersense 16L/1.25 at 48.2 lb 21.9 kg

Coming from Monotec Supersense 16L/1.25 at 52 lb

String Axon Mono 16L at 55.9 lb 25.4 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.

Axon Mono 16L mains / Monotec Supersense 16L/1.25 crosses

Stiffness72nd pct · 1 measured
Tension loss66th pct · 1 measured
Energy return65th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential8th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite12th pct · 1 measured
String friction88th pct · 1 measured

Monotec Supersense 16L/1.25 mains / Axon Mono 16L crosses

Stiffness73rd pct · 1 measured
Tension loss73rd pct · 1 measured
Energy return68th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential4th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite7th pct · 1 measured
String friction95th 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.

Axon Mono 16L

~23 hours of play

Monotec Supersense 16L/1.25

~15 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
IsoSpeed Axon Mono 16L Polyester16Lfind20034893.20.3830.119
Luxilon Monotec Supersense 16L/1.25 Polyester16Lfind21048942.10.3620.172

Add a third string Axon Mono 16L in full Monotec Supersense 16L/1.25 in full