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Head to head

Luxilon Adrenaline 17/1.20 vs Luxilon Adrenaline Rough 16L/1.25

Adrenaline Rough 16L/1.25 leads on 4 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is ball bite, where Adrenaline Rough 16L/1.25 is 31 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Luxilon

Adrenaline 17/1.20

Polyester · 17 ga

Luxilon

Adrenaline Rough 16L/1.25

Polyester · 16L ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
20876th pct
20370th pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
4270th pct
4576th pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
8631st pct
8628th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
2.98th pct
3.314th pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.38415th pct
0.43246th pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.13188th pct
0.13087th 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 Adrenaline 17/1.20 at 52 lb

String Adrenaline Rough 16L/1.25 at 53.4 lb 24.2 kg

Coming from Adrenaline Rough 16L/1.25 at 52 lb

String Adrenaline 17/1.20 at 50.2 lb 22.8 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.

Adrenaline 17/1.20 mains / Adrenaline Rough 16L/1.25 crosses

Stiffness74th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss72nd pct · 1 measured
Energy return30th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential8th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite18th pct · 1 measured
String friction88th pct · 1 measured

Adrenaline Rough 16L/1.25 mains / Adrenaline 17/1.20 crosses

Stiffness73rd pct · 1 measured
Tension loss74th pct · 1 measured
Energy return28th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential14th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite41st pct · 1 measured
String friction88th 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.

Adrenaline 17/1.20

~19 hours of play

Adrenaline Rough 16L/1.25

~17 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Luxilon Adrenaline 17/1.20 Polyester17find20842862.90.3840.131
Luxilon Adrenaline Rough 16L/1.25 Polyester16Lfind20345863.30.4320.130

Add a third string Adrenaline 17/1.20 in full Adrenaline Rough 16L/1.25 in full