Pacific XCite 16 (1.30) vs Tecnifibre Pro Red Code Wax 17

Measured, side by side

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.

• More spin and shape

  XCite 16 (1.30)93rd

  Pro Red Code Wax 1795th

• Easier on my arm

  XCite 16 (1.30)632nd

  Pro Red Code Wax 17703rd

• More control, less launch

  XCite 16 (1.30)78th

  Pro Red Code Wax 1735th

• More power and depth

  XCite 16 (1.30)549th

  Pro Red Code Wax 17577th

• Plays the same for longer

  XCite 16 (1.30)331st

  Pro Red Code Wax 17373rd

• Lasts longer before it breaks

  XCite 16 (1.30)116th

  Pro Red Code Wax 17274th

• Best feel and touch

  XCite 16 (1.30)514th

  Pro Red Code Wax 17565th

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.

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.

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.

Both strings in full

Add a third string XCite 16 (1.30) in full Pro Red Code Wax 17 in full