Yea, no S&B product is even close to the best in its class. That reputation has long since overlived its truthfullness, this isnt the early 2000s anymore when volcano was the only game in town. I can almost guarantee you this product will have the same subpar vapor as the mighty.
Volcano is a 20 year old design, Mighty/Crafty are 10 year old designs, and they are
still the watermark against which other vapes are measured.
Got any other 20 or 10 year old designs you'd compare favourably to them?
Design isn't even the right word. S&B vapes are as culturally German as a litre stein of sauerkraut.
They're not designed, they're
engineered.
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IMO there are vapes -
decades later- that with the right skills and adjustments -
can- outperform S&B in vapor quality, but that is one part of a greater whole.
The alternatives all seem to lack the reliability, ease of use, and safety right out of the box that S&B products offer.
Are there even
any other herb vapes classified or reversioned as medical devices?
S&B are simply on a different level to the competition.
Even today, subjectively better vapes are almost all hobbyist affairs that entail a combination of do-it-yourself modifications, constant stirring, specific drawing techniques, additional cooling mechanisms, combustion risk, a mountain of non-consumer power cells, and exposed scalding hot surfaces; all wrapped up in a warranty and defect gamble.
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The OG Volcano's inception in 1996 predates S&B as a company by
five years.
it's the rock on which their kingdom was built.
IMO contemporary vapes owe as much to it and s&b as contemporary music owes the Beatles, maybe more.
Before it, vapes were laughable, incapable of satisfying anyone with even a modicum of tolerance.
They were more of a niche market than a serious industry.
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Venty is S&Bs first blank slate product as a fully resourced business.
They sold the company and built a new wing of their HQ/Factory to create the capacity to produce it.
If it is a tenth of a tenth as revolutionary as the volcano, it will set the world on fire, regardless of its bag appeal.
S&B are our Nintendo, and love them or hate them, the industry moves to the beat of their drum.
I wish Jurgen & co the best of luck.
If history is anything to go by, their continued triumph is a victory for all of us.
