Head to head
Prince Premier Touch 15L vs Weiss Cannon Explosiv 1.30
They split the measurements 3–3. The widest gap is ball bite, where Premier Touch 15L is 23 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.
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.
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Premier Touch 15L412th
Explosiv 1.30498th
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Premier Touch 15L143rd
Explosiv 1.30122nd
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Premier Touch 15L652nd
Explosiv 1.30703rd
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Premier Touch 15L146th
Explosiv 1.3089th
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Premier Touch 15L249th
Explosiv 1.30266th
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Premier Touch 15L407th
Explosiv 1.30579th
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Premier Touch 15L160th
Explosiv 1.30111th
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 Premier Touch 15L at 52 lb
String Explosiv 1.30 at 52.6 lb 23.9 kg
Coming from Explosiv 1.30 at 52 lb
String Premier Touch 15L at 49.5 lb 22.5 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.
Premier Touch 15L mains / Explosiv 1.30 crosses
Explosiv 1.30 mains / Premier Touch 15L crosses
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.
Premier Touch 15L
~30 hours of play
Explosiv 1.30
~29 hours of play
Both strings in full
| String | Gauge | Price | Stiff lb/in | Loss % | Power % | Spin | Bite COF | Friction COF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prince Premier Touch 15L Nylon | 15L | find | 153 | 24 | 92 | 4.4 | 0.464 | 0.106 |
| Weiss Cannon Explosiv 1.30 Nylon | — | find | 151 | 25 | 93 | 4.0 | 0.424 | 0.105 |
Add a third string Premier Touch 15L in full Explosiv 1.30 in full