Head to head

Prince Beast XP 16 vs Weiss Cannon Silverstring 1.25

Beast XP 16 leads on 5 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is string friction, where Beast XP 16 is 5 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Prince

Beast XP 16

Polyester · 16 ga

Weiss Cannon

Silverstring 1.25

Polyester

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
19967th pct
19663rd pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
4270th pct
4474th pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
8739th pct
8737th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
3.927th pct
3.824th pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.40929th pct
0.40728th pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.10468th pct
0.10874th 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 Beast XP 16 at 52 lb

String Silverstring 1.25 at 57.1 lb 25.9 kg

Coming from Silverstring 1.25 at 52 lb

String Beast XP 16 at 48.1 lb 21.8 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.

Beast XP 16 mains / Silverstring 1.25 crosses

Stiffness65th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss71st pct · 1 measured
Energy return39th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential25th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite28th pct · 1 measured
String friction70th pct · 1 measured

Silverstring 1.25 mains / Beast XP 16 crosses

Stiffness65th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss73rd pct · 1 measured
Energy return39th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential25th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite28th pct · 1 measured
String friction72nd 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.

Beast XP 16

~19 hours of play

Silverstring 1.25

~18 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Prince Beast XP 16 Polyester16find19942873.90.4090.104
Weiss Cannon Silverstring 1.25 Polyesterfind19644873.80.4070.108

Add a third string Beast XP 16 in full Silverstring 1.25 in full