Head to head
Signum Pro Poly-Plasma Pure 16L vs Wilson Ripspin 16
Ripspin 16 leads on 4 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is ball bite, where Poly-Plasma Pure 16L is 25 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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Poly-Plasma Pure 16L206th
Ripspin 16288th
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Poly-Plasma Pure 16L735th
Ripspin 16671st
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Poly-Plasma Pure 16L34th
Ripspin 16118th
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Poly-Plasma Pure 16L724th
Ripspin 16660th
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Poly-Plasma Pure 16L541st
Ripspin 16529th
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Poly-Plasma Pure 16L112th
Ripspin 16147th
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Poly-Plasma Pure 16L722nd
Ripspin 16645th
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 Poly-Plasma Pure 16L at 52 lb
String Ripspin 16 at 55.8 lb 25.3 kg
Coming from Ripspin 16 at 52 lb
String Poly-Plasma Pure 16L at 46.4 lb 21.0 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.
Poly-Plasma Pure 16L mains / Ripspin 16 crosses
Ripspin 16 mains / Poly-Plasma Pure 16L 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.
Poly-Plasma Pure 16L
~20 hours of play
Ripspin 16
~20 hours of play
Both strings in full
| String | Gauge | Price | Stiff lb/in | Loss % | Power % | Spin | Bite COF | Friction COF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Signum Pro Poly-Plasma Pure 16L Polyester | 16L | find | 221 | 41 | 86 | 5.6 | 0.467 | 0.083 |
| Wilson Ripspin 16 Polyester | 16 | find | 212 | 40 | 86 | 5.2 | 0.423 | 0.082 |
Add a third string Poly-Plasma Pure 16L in full Ripspin 16 in full