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PTO Review
We know them. Here's how they stack up.
These skis span 2 categories (Touring, Carving). Scores reflect each ski's intended use — direct comparison across all dimensions may be misleading.
Pagoda Tour CFL 100 — skiers who do their own climbing on a mid-width ski. Laser SX — piste skiers who want one comfortable, wide-range carver and prefer all-day ease to race-build effort. Check the radar chart below to see where each one wins.
Each row compares all skis on one dimension. 🏆 marks the highest score.
| Dimension | Pagoda Tour CFL 100 | Laser SX |
|---|---|---|
| Carving | 5 | 8🏆 |
| Park | 1🏆 | 1🏆 |
| Playfulness | 7🏆 | 5 |
| Forgiveness | 7🏆 | 6 |
| Stability | 5 | 7🏆 |
| Powder | 7🏆 | 2 |
Skiers who do their own climbing on a mid-width ski. This is a touring platform first: wide enough to be pleasant when the surface goes soft, narrow enough to stay quick between trees and in a couloir, and light enough that the width is not what you notice on the climb. It answers one other question cleanly. If you already know you like how a 100mm all-mountain ski turns and your objection is the mass, DPS has drawn you the identical shape with the mass taken out.
Refrozen debris at speed. A paulownia core with no metal in the laminate does not have the mass to settle down when the surface gets ugly, and no amount of flax fixes that at 1,523 g in the 171. Skip it if your deep days are genuinely deep — 100mm with a 15m radius is the narrow, quick end of the touring range, and DPS builds a 112mm and a 117mm for that snow. Skip it if you want a long, fast arc: a short radius carried with 45% rocker leaves little edge on the snow, and DPS's own 18m answer sits one model over.
Piste skiers who want one comfortable, wide-range carver and prefer all-day ease to race-build effort. It suits medium-to-long-turn skiers at moderate-to-fast speed — the Laser SX runs the longest radius in the line — who value low-input, forgiving manners on groomed and variable hard snow over maximum edge bite. Stöckli's own brief calls it a genuine all-rounder among piste skis.
Powder and off-piste skiers: at 74 mm on a pure on-piste geometry the Laser SX has no float, and the wider range Stöckli talks about is range within the groomers, not off them. Short-turn and slalom-rhythm skiers: the radius bottoms out at 13.1 m, and quick edge-to-edge belongs to the Laser CX or the shorter Laser SL. Skiers chasing race-level grip and power: there is no Race Core, no carbon, and no racing sidewall here, and the 1.5° comfort base bevel is not the 1.0° race tune of the SC and WRT — that bite lives on those skis, not this one. Anyone who needs a published on-snow test before buying should wait: this generation is completely redesigned — every existing Laser SX review is of the older, narrower ski and does not apply. And Stöckli lists no skier level of its own; read this as an intermediate-to-advanced piste ski, inferred from its mechanics rather than measured on snow.
The Pagoda Tour CFL 100 is best for skiers who do their own climbing on a mid-width ski. The Laser SX is best for piste skiers who want one comfortable, wide-range carver and prefer all-day ease to race-build effort. The right choice depends on your primary terrain, ability level, and riding style.
The Stöckli Laser SX scores highest in Stability at 7/10, making it the strongest all-mountain option. It handles groomers, chop, and variable conditions without losing composure, so it's the best single-ski choice for skiers who want one pair for the whole mountain.
The Stöckli Laser SX leads in Carving with a PTO score of 8/10. Its edge grip on hard snow and groomed runs is the strongest in this comparison.
The DPS Pagoda Tour CFL 100 is the most forgiving option with a Forgiveness score of 7/10. It doesn't punish imperfect technique, making it the easiest ski to progress on among these.
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