Best string/tension for demo?

[SinneGOAT]

Hi everyone, I’m going to be demoing four racquets soon. My racquet journey has hopefully come to an end! The racquets I’m demoing are the pure drive tour plus(2018) Pure aero plus, Pure Aero tour and Pure Strike 16/19 gen 3. I have only had arm problems with the pure drive when I tried a hybrid with 4g as a cross, and it hurt my elbow. I have since done research into some more comfortable strings. However I need to find the best string to try. I have bought a few packs of these strings:
1. Solinco hyper g 16 + 16l
2. Technifibre triax 16+17
3. Kirschbaum pro line evolution
4. Volkl cyclone tour 16 red + black
5. Babolat rpm blast rough 17
6. Solinco confidential 16l
7. Head velocity 16 + 17
8. Weiss cannon ultra cable
And I’ve already tried lynx tour and normal lynx, liked both.
What do you guys think? What tension should I try for which frame? I bought enough packs of the ones I’m excited to try so I can try different tensions and each racquet. I can control my shots well to where I can string semi low in frames like the pure drive with enough control, but wanted to get some advice from people who probably know more than I. I also can handle stiffer frames like the aero, the drive pushes me but I can handle it for awhile, never tried the strike before.

 

[SinneGOAT]

I’ve also been around and saw @g4driver seems to have some experience with at least cyclone tour. What do you think I should do? Any difference between red and black?

 

[Injured Again]

No experience with Triax, Cyclone Tour, or Velocity. Of the others except Blast Rough and Ultra Cable, I'd string them up at around 48 pounds. My son has been along time user of the Pure Drive Tour Plus and uses 1.25 Cyclone at 50 pounds, but his racquet is weighted to 365 grams and 350 swingweight. At stock weight, that would be on the tight side.

Blast Rough and Ultra Cable both have more tension loss than the others. Ultra Cable makes up for it by being thicker and playability changes less with lower tension than Blast Rough. I'd go up 3-4 pounds with Blast Rough and two pounds with Ultra Cable.

 

[SinneGOAT]

No experience with Triax, Cyclone Tour, or Velocity. Of the others except Blast Rough and Ultra Cable, I'd string them up at around 48 pounds. My son has been along time user of the Pure Drive Tour Plus and uses 1.25 Cyclone at 50 pounds, but his racquet is weighted to 365 grams and 350 swingweight. At stock weight, that would be on the tight side.

Blast Rough and Ultra Cable both have more tension loss than the others. Ultra Cable makes up for it by being thicker and playability changes less with lower tension than Blast Rough. I'd go up 3-4 pounds with Blast Rough and two pounds with Ultra Cable.

wow 365!? That’s crazy heavy, but if you can handle it. I was thinkingI may do a pre stretch for blast rough and then string it at 51 pounds, probably because of the power level.

 

[SinneGOAT]

Does anybody know the differences between cyclone tour red and black?

 

[Yamin]

You should try the same string in all the frames. Not sure if that was what you're saying you're doing. I would personally try Velocity 16 or Hyper G 16l depending on if you play with poly or multi due to stiffness, tension retention, etc. Even synthetic gut would be fine... Focus on the rackets not the string. I only have experience with half your strings but definitely don't recommend getting lost in strings you're not familiar with. Just pick one you've used before and have liked, and string close in tension across them.

 

[nochuola]

I'll share my recent experience, hope this helps simplify your decisions. I recently demoed the TF40 and VCP HD. I strung them both with the same strings at the same tension (notice how I'm not specifying the strings here). I couldn't pick one after the demo because they each complemented different parts of my game so I got both. Since then, I have been playing with both strung with different strings, and one conclusion I can draw from that is: as long as the string setup is the same or similar enough, the relative characteristics you notice between the racquets stay the same. To put more plainly, my TF40 is alway more stable, better power, and better for defense, while my VCP is always plusher, better for aggressive attacks and slices, and pin point accuracy, when they have the same/similar string setup.

Long story short, no need to overthink strings during the demo stage. Just string with whatever you're most familiar with at the same tensions and test them that way. It will give you the most accurate comparisons of the racquets themselves. You can dive deeper into strings to maximize the characteristics you want later.

 

[OldManStan]

I concur. What I’m looking for when I test a racquet is how it feels when it impacts the racquet.

Does it twist?
Does it bend?
How about off center hits?
Is it forgiving?
Does the racquet reflect my game?
Does it make feel confident in my strokes?

Just go with a familiar string and start swinging. Hopefully this helps you OP.

I'll share my recent experience, hope this helps simplify your decisions. I recently demoed the TF40 and VCP HD. I strung them both with the same strings at the same tension (notice how I'm not specifying the strings here). I couldn't pick one after the demo because they each complemented different parts of my game so I got both. Since then, I have been playing with both strung with different strings, and one conclusion I can draw from that is: as long as the string setup is the same or similar enough, the relative characteristics you notice between the racquets stay the same. To put more plainly, my TF40 is alway more stable, better power, and better for defense, while my VCP is always plusher, better for aggressive attacks and slices, and pin point accuracy, when they have the same/similar string setup.

Long story short, no need to overthink strings during the demo stage. Just string with whatever you're most familiar with at the same tensions and test them that way. It will give you the most accurate comparisons of the racquets themselves. You can dive deeper into strings to maximize the characteristics you want later.

 

[SinneGOAT]

I'll share my recent experience, hope this helps simplify your decisions. I recently demoed the TF40 and VCP HD. I strung them both with the same strings at the same tension (notice how I'm not specifying the strings here). I couldn't pick one after the demo because they each complemented different parts of my game so I got both. Since then, I have been playing with both strung with different strings, and one conclusion I can draw from that is: as long as the string setup is the same or similar enough, the relative characteristics you notice between the racquets stay the same. To put more plainly, my TF40 is alway more stable, better power, and better for defense, while my VCP is always plusher, better for aggressive attacks and slices, and pin point accuracy, when they have the same/similar string setup.

Long story short, no need to overthink strings during the demo stage. Just string with whatever you're most familiar with at the same tensions and test them that way. It will give you the most accurate comparisons of the racquets themselves. You can dive deeper into strings to maximize the characteristics you want later.

I like that idea, I will probably test all those strings after I pick one lol.

 

[Chezbeeno]

I definitely recommend using the same string/tension - ideally if you have a go-to setup I would go with that, since then you'll have a better idea of what the differences are between the frames, since you'll already have an idea of how the strings play.
The one caveat to this is if you know that one of the frames will clearly play better with a certain kind of setup (like if there's a general consensus across reviewers that a frame does better with tensions in the 40's or something). As far as I know, that isn't the case with any of the frames you're demoing, though.