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Prince Tour XC 16L vs Topspin Cyber Delta 17 (1.26)

Cyber Delta 17 (1.26) leads on 4 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is ball bite, where Cyber Delta 17 (1.26) is 42 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Prince

Tour XC 16L

Polyester · 16L ga

Topspin

Cyber Delta 17 (1.26)

Polyester · 17 ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
20674th pct
20169th pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
3762nd pct
3557th pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
8848th pct
8844th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
5.569th pct
5.671st pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.42037th pct
0.50479th pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.07717th pct
0.09046th 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 16L at 52 lb

String Cyber Delta 17 (1.26) at 53.3 lb 24.2 kg

Coming from Cyber Delta 17 (1.26) at 52 lb

String Tour XC 16L at 50.7 lb 23.0 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 16L mains / Cyber Delta 17 (1.26) crosses

Stiffness72nd pct · 1 measured
Tension loss60th pct · 1 measured
Energy return48th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential70th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite46th pct · 1 measured
String friction25th pct · 1 measured

Cyber Delta 17 (1.26) mains / Tour XC 16L crosses

Stiffness70th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss59th pct · 1 measured
Energy return45th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential70th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite74th pct · 1 measured
String friction38th 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 16L

~21 hours of play

Cyber Delta 17 (1.26)

~23 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Prince Tour XC 16L Polyester16Lfind20637885.50.4200.077
Topspin Cyber Delta 17 (1.26) Polyester17find20135885.60.5040.090

Add a third string Tour XC 16L in full Cyber Delta 17 (1.26) in full