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Polyfibre Hightec Premium 16L vs Polyfibre TCS 16/1.30

Hightec Premium 16L leads on 3 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is string friction, where Hightec Premium 16L is 8 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Polyfibre

Hightec Premium 16L

Polyester · 16L ga

Polyfibre

TCS 16/1.30

Polyester · 16 ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
17039th pct
17341st pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
6097th pct
6097th pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
791st pct
781st pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
4.440th pct
4.440th pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.37410th pct
0.38716th pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.08534th pct
0.08842nd 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 Hightec Premium 16L at 52 lb

String TCS 16/1.30 at 51.9 lb 23.5 kg

Coming from TCS 16/1.30 at 52 lb

String Hightec Premium 16L at 52.1 lb 23.6 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.

Hightec Premium 16L mains / TCS 16/1.30 crosses

Stiffness39th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss97th pct · 1 measured
Energy return1st pct · 1 measured
Spin potential40th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite11th pct · 1 measured
String friction35th pct · 1 measured

TCS 16/1.30 mains / Hightec Premium 16L crosses

Stiffness40th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss97th pct · 1 measured
Energy return1st pct · 1 measured
Spin potential40th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite15th pct · 1 measured
String friction41st 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.

Hightec Premium 16L

~11 hours of play

TCS 16/1.30

~11 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Polyfibre Hightec Premium 16L Polyester16Lfind17060794.40.3740.085
Polyfibre TCS 16/1.30 Polyester16find17360784.40.3870.088

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