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Luxilon LXN Smart 16L (1.25) vs Solinco Outlast 16

LXN Smart 16L (1.25) leads on 4 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is ball bite, where LXN Smart 16L (1.25) is 55 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Luxilon

LXN Smart 16L (1.25)

Polyester · 16L ga

Solinco

Outlast 16

Polyester · 16 ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
20169th pct
20876th pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
4371st pct
4782nd pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
8733rd pct
8734th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
6.889th pct
6.079th pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.54088th pct
0.41634th pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.07921st pct
0.0694th 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 LXN Smart 16L (1.25) at 52 lb

String Outlast 16 at 49.1 lb 22.3 kg

Coming from Outlast 16 at 52 lb

String LXN Smart 16L (1.25) at 53.3 lb 24.2 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.

LXN Smart 16L (1.25) mains / Outlast 16 crosses

Stiffness72nd pct · 1 measured
Tension loss75th pct · 1 measured
Energy return34th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential88th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite84th pct · 1 measured
String friction16th pct · 1 measured

Outlast 16 mains / LXN Smart 16L (1.25) crosses

Stiffness73rd pct · 1 measured
Tension loss78th pct · 1 measured
Energy return34th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential82nd pct · 1 measured
Ball bite47th pct · 1 measured
String friction6th 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.

LXN Smart 16L (1.25)

~19 hours of play

Outlast 16

~15 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Luxilon LXN Smart 16L (1.25) Polyester16Lfind20143876.80.5400.079
Solinco Outlast 16 Polyester16$9.5020847876.00.4160.069

Add a third string LXN Smart 16L (1.25) in full Outlast 16 in full