MSV EVO-HEX – “Catching Fire!”

The new MSV EVO-HEX is available for purchase in the USA and sales are starting to catch fire.   After extensive playtesting, the feedback indicates this product is definitely ready for prime time.

The EVO-HEX is a hexagonal profiled version of the Focus-EVO.  The EVO series was specifically designed to take MSV’s wildly popular Focus strings to a higher level of overall performance.  While Focus-EVO has generated a loyal following of users, it has never enjoyed the popularity of it’s older sibling.  That may be about to change with this new offering.

Playtesters have been gushing over the all around performance of the EVO-HEX.  (It should be noted that many of the same playtesters had not hit with the Focus-EVO so this was their first experience with the string.)  The most prominent feedback was in the area of comfort.  Playtesters enjoyed the feel, responsiveness and feedback of this product.  Couple that with an extra helping of spin and control (thanks to the profile of the string), and we had  and extremely happy cadre of  playtesting campers on our hands.

The question we set out to answer with our playtest is how does it compare to the insanely popular MSV Focus-Hex®? The answer is very well.  As was expected, our playtesters rated each string highly in terms of control and spin.  Some playtesters rated the EVO-HEX slightly higher in terms of power while others did not rate one as more powerful than the other.  The EVO-HEX was a nearly unanimous choice in terms of comfort and feel.  All playtesters used it in a full stringbed with some commenting it was as comfortable or moreso than poly/syn gut hybrids they had used in the past. Like the Focus-EVO, the EVO-HEX does tend to move around some in the stringbed.  It is not pronounced movement, but there is some string movement especially in the first couple hours of hitting.

We measured the tension loss of the EVO-HEX to be on par with many of the newer poly-based offerings.  It will experience an intial loss of 10 – 13% and then hold at that level.  The performance remains consistent and we did not receive any reports of  “hot spots” developing with the initial drop in tension.

If you have not yet experience the MSV Focus-EVO or the MSV EVO-HEX, we invite you to give them a try and see if they provide the characteristics to help you take your game to another level.