Is it possible for someone who owns both the bakx and the tempest or other ball vapes to comment on the difference in performance both objective and subjective?
Not here, that would be a question for ask FC because you are asking for direct comparison really... Essentially they are really almost nothing alike though?
This is a vape that has interested me for some time, and I see this as the end game for conduction while ball vapes seem to be end game for convection, so the contrast would be interesting to hear about.
This is so good for conduction because it has full power modularity and purity with its simplicity... Ball vapes only seem that way because it is a simple way to get strong air flow and high surface area heater with rubies for strong heat retention and easy heating with PID enails etc. or torch too?
They are in their own category of convection, and there are a wide variety of them, so I would not consider them endgame, just another option depending what you were looking for... And I don't think they are at all similar comparably to BAK (unless you are getting Vulcan heated bowl setup or electropath where you are turning them into hybrid conduction vapes heating the tube around in a similar way the ribbon coil heats around the glass tube in BAK, but the idea is to keep the temperature low for the conduction extraction, just to make it a full even hybrid extraction once you put the baller vape on there for the convection air flow inhale... If you tried to use that setup full conduction, maybe it could be more similar to BAK in a sense, but it is a much larger bowl and might not work as well with a large whole nug etc I don't know not sure if people have done that direct comparison)
Tempest thermal accumulator is a specific type of ball vape in a little vap cap stem vape form factor, designed for puffing like a joint from one heat up, sometimes you can use BAK in a similar way of puffing as it's heating for you but again it's so different because more pure conduction compared to pure convection even though there could be some hybrid effect for both... I just really don't consider them similar in use or vapor quality frankly, though they are certainly adequately efficient and flavorful, great experiences