Prince Tour XC 16L vs Prince Tour XC 17L

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.

• More spin and shape

  Tour XC 16L241st

  Tour XC 17L181st

• Easier on my arm

  Tour XC 16L531st

  Tour XC 17L533rd

• More control, less launch

  Tour XC 16L262nd

  Tour XC 17L243rd

• More power and depth

  Tour XC 16L408th

  Tour XC 17L436th

• Plays the same for longer

  Tour XC 16L476th

  Tour XC 17L477th

• Lasts longer before it breaks

  Tour XC 16L287th

  Tour XC 17L238th

• Best feel and touch

  Tour XC 16L447th

  Tour XC 17L459th

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.

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.

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.

Both strings in full

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