Head to head
IsoSpeed Pulse 16 vs Wilson Enduro Tour 17
Pulse 16 leads on 4 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is ball bite, where Enduro Tour 17 is 30 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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Pulse 16405th
Enduro Tour 17365th
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Pulse 16368th
Enduro Tour 17431st
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Pulse 16440th
Enduro Tour 17395th
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Pulse 16578th
Enduro Tour 17652nd
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Pulse 16753rd
Enduro Tour 17773rd
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Pulse 1638th
Enduro Tour 17320th
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Pulse 16583rd
Enduro Tour 17650th
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 Pulse 16 at 52 lb
String Enduro Tour 17 at 48.9 lb 22.2 kg
Coming from Enduro Tour 17 at 52 lb
String Pulse 16 at 55.3 lb 25.1 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.
Pulse 16 mains / Enduro Tour 17 crosses
Enduro Tour 17 mains / Pulse 16 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.
Pulse 16
~11 hours of play
Enduro Tour 17
~11 hours of play
Both strings in full
| String | Gauge | Price | Stiff lb/in | Loss % | Power % | Spin | Bite COF | Friction COF |
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| IsoSpeed Pulse 16 Polyester | 16 | find | 165 | 57 | 82 | 4.7 | 0.346 | 0.074 |
| Wilson Enduro Tour 17 Polyester | 17 | find | 170 | 62 | 80 | 4.8 | 0.414 | 0.086 |