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Prince Tour XC 15L vs Solinco Outlast 16

Outlast 16 leads on 4 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is energy return, where Outlast 16 is 12 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Prince

Tour XC 15L

Polyester · 15L ga

Solinco

Outlast 16

Polyester · 16 ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
20977th pct
20876th pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
4578th pct
4782nd pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
8522nd pct
8734th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
5.569th pct
6.079th pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.41634th pct
0.41634th pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.07514th pct
0.0694th 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 Tour XC 15L at 52 lb

String Outlast 16 at 51.0 lb 23.1 kg

Coming from Outlast 16 at 52 lb

String Tour XC 15L at 52.7 lb 23.9 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.

Tour XC 15L mains / Outlast 16 crosses

Stiffness77th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss79th pct · 1 measured
Energy return27th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential71st pct · 1 measured
Ball bite34th pct · 1 measured
String friction10th pct · 1 measured

Outlast 16 mains / Tour XC 15L crosses

Stiffness77th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss81st pct · 1 measured
Energy return30th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential78th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite34th pct · 1 measured
String friction5th 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.

Tour XC 15L

~17 hours of play

Outlast 16

~15 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Prince Tour XC 15L Polyester15Lfind20945855.50.4160.075
Solinco Outlast 16 Polyester16$9.5020847876.00.4160.069

Add a third string Tour XC 15L in full Outlast 16 in full