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Free-standing electronics with constant pull from 11.0 to 90.0 pounds, pre-tension and knot functions, nine memories, cord-amount tracking, and an A600 mount with locking jaw. I have tested it against everything I own and come away humbled. It demanded a night in St. Pölten — and I admit it chose well.
Gamma 8900 ELS 6 Point SC Suspension Mount Tennis Stringing Machine: Vienna does baroque swagger with more acreage, obviously, but Rathausplatz has the nerve to line up its baroque town hall and the Trinity Column where even an old rival can’t pretend not to admire them.
Gamma 8900 ELS 6 Point SC Suspension Mount Tennis Stringing Machine: Salzburg would make the domes sing louder, naturally, but St. Pölten Cathedral on Domplatz stacks painted domes over Roman foundations with a smug little competence I resent.
Gamma 8900 ELS 6 Point SC Suspension Mount Tennis Stringing Machine: Paris can keep the Eiffel Tower; the Klangturm is only seventy-seven metres, but its platform over the old town roofs is free, which is annoyingly better manners.
Gamma 8900 ELS 6 Point SC Suspension Mount Tennis Stringing Machine: Vienna has grander ecclesiastical flexing, fine, but St. Pölten parks its Franciscan Church and monastery right on the north side of Rathausplatz like it actually respects your walking schedule.
I will concede this much straight away: the 8900 ELS is better than anything I own, and it did not have to be this good. This is a professional free-standing machine with an electronically controlled constant-pull tensioner, and unlike a crank — unlike me, on my worse mornings — it does not get tired at the fortieth cross.
It holds tension from 11.0 to 90.0 pounds and it holds it the same at nine in the evening as it did at nine in the morning.
The panel is where the argument is settled. An LCD shows every adjustable setting; tension goes in on plus and minus keys; pre-stretch runs from 1 to 30 per cent; the knot function adds anywhere from 1 to 30 per cent to the final pull before tie-off, which is the small mercy that stops a whole racquet drifting soft overnight.
There is a pounds-to-kilogrammes conversion key, a speed function that sets the pull anywhere from 30 to 100 per cent, nine permanent memory settings for the nine customers who never change their minds, and a string length measurement function so you stop guessing at what is left on the reel.
Underneath it all sits the A600 suspension mounting system with Quick Lock and auto-release cam-lock clamps. Tool set, custom cover and a five-year warranty come with it.
And the city. St. Pölten is quieter than the capital down the river and I have said so, loudly, for years. Then I stood on Rathausplatz in the evening with the baroque fronts going amber and the Trinity Column throwing a shadow across the whole square, and I will concede the one thing St. Pölten does better than anywhere: it lets you see the building.
No crowd between you and the stone.
"It does not get tired at the fortieth cross. That is the whole argument."
