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Head to head

Klip Armour Pro 16/1.30 vs Klip Legend 17 (1.25)

Legend 17 (1.25) leads on 4 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is ball bite, where Legend 17 (1.25) is 31 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Klip

Armour Pro 16/1.30

Gut · 16 ga

Klip

Legend 17 (1.25)

Gut · 17 ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
1092nd pct
901st pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
167th pct
121st pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
9699th pct
9698th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
1.40th pct
2.02nd pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.2790th pct
0.41231st pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.19498th pct
0.20798th pct

Bars are percentile against all 788 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 Armour Pro 16/1.30 at 52 lb

String Legend 17 (1.25) at 63.3 lb 28.7 kg

Coming from Legend 17 (1.25) at 52 lb

String Armour Pro 16/1.30 at 42.7 lb 19.4 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.

Armour Pro 16/1.30 mains / Legend 17 (1.25) crosses

Stiffness2nd pct · 1 measured
Tension loss4th pct · 1 measured
Energy return99th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential0th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite0th pct · 1 measured
String friction98th pct · 1 measured

Legend 17 (1.25) mains / Armour Pro 16/1.30 crosses

Stiffness2nd pct · 1 measured
Tension loss3rd pct · 1 measured
Energy return99th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential1st pct · 1 measured
Ball bite19th pct · 1 measured
String friction98th 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.

Armour Pro 16/1.30

~38 hours of play

Legend 17 (1.25)

~40 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Klip Armour Pro 16/1.30 Gut16find10916961.40.2790.194
Klip Legend 17 (1.25) Gut17find9012962.00.4120.207

Add a third string Armour Pro 16/1.30 in full Legend 17 (1.25) in full