JammyDodger I got the new PPS diffuser and shower block from Decent, as well as a matte rubber steam wand sleeve and nanocoated IMS shower screen.
The new group head parts are meant to improve the taste of the shot in the cup by increasing radial extraction and further reducing channeling. It also reduces headspace by around 1mm from the current model, and being plastic and therefore less of a heat sink than brass, it allows much more accurate and responsive temperature changes when temperature profiling. I haven’t had a chance to test them out yet but I am really looking forward to my coffee tomorrow.
Hi JammyDodger. What version DE1 do you have? I just acquired a pre-owned DE1XL v1.42 and am looking at upgrade parts as well. What is the impact on channeling, distribution evenness and taste? Were they worthwhile upgrades?
I also need to determine shipping costs, as Decent will only ship to Canada via their Express service, which they advise me is quite costly but have yet to tell me how much cost.
I can however have these shipped via Standard shipping to either the US or UK and then use ReShip to get it to Canada.
Might you tell me what shipping service you used and what the shipping cost was.
Btw, what accessories do you have? Did you get the refill kit? Were the accessories worthwhile?
