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

Prince

Premier Touch 15L

Nylon · 15L ga

Weiss Cannon

Explosiv 1.30

Nylon

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
15315th pct
15114th pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
2432nd pct
2536th pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
9276th pct
9384th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
4.440th pct
4.030th pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.46463rd pct
0.42440th pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.10671st pct
0.10570th 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 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

Stiffness15th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss33rd pct · 1 measured
Energy return80th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential38th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite60th pct · 1 measured
String friction70th pct · 1 measured

Explosiv 1.30 mains / Premier Touch 15L crosses

Stiffness15th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss35th pct · 1 measured
Energy return81st pct · 1 measured
Spin potential31st pct · 1 measured
Ball bite44th pct · 1 measured
String friction70th 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.

Premier Touch 15L

~30 hours of play

Explosiv 1.30

~29 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Prince Premier Touch 15L Nylon15Lfind15324924.40.4640.106
Weiss Cannon Explosiv 1.30 Nylonfind15125934.00.4240.105

Add a third string Premier Touch 15L in full Explosiv 1.30 in full