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Luxilon Big Banger TiMO 17L (1.17) vs Tourna Big Hitter Silver Rough 16

They split the measurements 3–3. The widest gap is ball bite, where Big Hitter Silver Rough 16 is 26 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Luxilon

Big Banger TiMO 17L (1.17)

Polyester · 17L ga

Tourna

Big Hitter Silver Rough 16

Polyester · 16 ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
20472nd pct
20674th pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
4679th pct
4577th pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
8733rd pct
8629th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
4.440th pct
4.543rd pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.41332nd pct
0.45358th pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.09455th pct
0.10063rd 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 Big Banger TiMO 17L (1.17) at 52 lb

String Big Hitter Silver Rough 16 at 50.2 lb 22.8 kg

Coming from Big Hitter Silver Rough 16 at 52 lb

String Big Banger TiMO 17L (1.17) at 53.9 lb 24.4 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.

Big Banger TiMO 17L (1.17) mains / Big Hitter Silver Rough 16 crosses

Stiffness73rd pct · 1 measured
Tension loss78th pct · 1 measured
Energy return32nd pct · 1 measured
Spin potential41st pct · 1 measured
Ball bite36th pct · 1 measured
String friction57th pct · 1 measured

Big Hitter Silver Rough 16 mains / Big Banger TiMO 17L (1.17) crosses

Stiffness73rd pct · 1 measured
Tension loss78th pct · 1 measured
Energy return30th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential41st pct · 1 measured
Ball bite54th pct · 1 measured
String friction62nd 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.

Big Banger TiMO 17L (1.17)

~16 hours of play

Big Hitter Silver Rough 16

~17 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Luxilon Big Banger TiMO 17L (1.17) Polyester17Lfind20446874.40.4130.094
Tourna Big Hitter Silver Rough 16 Polyester16find20645864.50.4530.100

Add a third string Big Banger TiMO 17L (1.17) in full Big Hitter Silver Rough 16 in full