If anyone is wanting a review of the stereo faketrix, I should be getting mine in 3-5 days, along with the ion faketrix, (I cannot for the life of me remember which one is the 187 & 186... I've looked it up like 7 times, but my brain just won't hold the info...)
So if anyone is about to pull the trigger, but wanting to see a review, I'm already guinea pigging this one
Next step:
See if we can find the actual Chinese blowers and start suggesting new models for them
@jambandphan03 your experience with the stereo matrix sounds similar to mine, I mentioned in the möbius thread that I thought the bottom matrix does essentially nothing, and I got shot down on that one.
The official consensus is that the bottom perc is essentially acting as an inverted shower head type deal to pre-diffuse a bit on the way up to the main perc.
I still think its mostly pointless, but as an aesthetic addition, I quite like it.
The little issues you had with the 60t were the same reasons I ended up selling mine, those little things (and the fact I'd prefer the bubbler version over the tube version) just added up to my not wanting to have $400+ invested in the piece.
At under $100, I'm happy to spend some extra time getting to know its subtleties.