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Klip Hardcore 16/1.30 vs Solinco Tour Bite Diamond Rough 16 (1.30)

They split the measurements 3–3. The widest gap is ball bite, where Tour Bite Diamond Rough 16 (1.30) is 42 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Klip

Hardcore 16/1.30

Polyester · 16 ga

Solinco

Tour Bite Diamond Rough 16 (1.30)

Polyester · 16 ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
19361st pct
19360th pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
5088th pct
5292nd pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
8310th pct
827th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
4.748th pct
4.954th pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.43246th pct
0.54088th pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.09250th pct
0.11177th 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 Hardcore 16/1.30 at 52 lb

String Tour Bite Diamond Rough 16 (1.30) at 55.0 lb 24.9 kg

Coming from Tour Bite Diamond Rough 16 (1.30) at 52 lb

String Hardcore 16/1.30 at 46.5 lb 21.1 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.

Hardcore 16/1.30 mains / Tour Bite Diamond Rough 16 (1.30) crosses

Stiffness60th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss89th pct · 1 measured
Energy return7th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential49th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite55th pct · 1 measured
String friction57th pct · 1 measured

Tour Bite Diamond Rough 16 (1.30) mains / Hardcore 16/1.30 crosses

Stiffness60th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss90th pct · 1 measured
Energy return7th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential53rd pct · 1 measured
Ball bite85th pct · 1 measured
String friction71st 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.

Hardcore 16/1.30

~14 hours of play

Tour Bite Diamond Rough 16 (1.30)

~13 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Klip Hardcore 16/1.30 Polyester16find19350834.70.4320.092
Solinco Tour Bite Diamond Rough 16 (1.30) Polyester16$13.9919352824.90.5400.111

Add a third string Hardcore 16/1.30 in full Tour Bite Diamond Rough 16 (1.30) in full