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Toroline O-TORO Snap 16L (1.25) vs Weiss Cannon Ultra Cable 17 (1.23)

O-TORO Snap 16L (1.25) leads on 4 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is tension loss, where O-TORO Snap 16L (1.25) is 14 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Toroline

O-TORO Snap 16L (1.25)

Polyester · 16L ga

Weiss Cannon

Ultra Cable 17 (1.23)

Polyester · 17 ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
16532nd pct
17543rd pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
4270th pct
4884th pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
8518th pct
838th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
8.798th pct
11.9100th pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.52986th pct
0.774100th pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.0611st pct
0.0651st pct

Bars are percentile against all 788 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 O-TORO Snap 16L (1.25) at 52 lb

String Ultra Cable 17 (1.23) at 48.9 lb 22.2 kg

Coming from Ultra Cable 17 (1.23) at 52 lb

String O-TORO Snap 16L (1.25) at 55.3 lb 25.1 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.

O-TORO Snap 16L (1.25) mains / Ultra Cable 17 (1.23) crosses

Stiffness37th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss74th pct · 1 measured
Energy return13th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential99th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite92nd pct · 1 measured
String friction1st pct · 1 measured

Ultra Cable 17 (1.23) mains / O-TORO Snap 16L (1.25) crosses

Stiffness39th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss78th pct · 1 measured
Energy return11th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential100th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite100th pct · 1 measured
String friction1st 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.

O-TORO Snap 16L (1.25)

~19 hours of play

Ultra Cable 17 (1.23)

~15 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Toroline O-TORO Snap 16L (1.25) Polyester16L$15.0016542858.70.5290.061
Weiss Cannon Ultra Cable 17 (1.23) Polyester17find175488311.90.7740.065

Add a third string O-TORO Snap 16L (1.25) in full Ultra Cable 17 (1.23) in full