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yo, my GAN 17 just arrived, and i’m telling y'all right now, this is literally the best cube i’ve ever held in my hands

i’ve had other cubes like the v11 highest variant/swift block super maglev/guhong pro+, and honestly, the GAN 17 absolutely smashes all of them for me like the feeling is just on another level. it feels very smooth and fast, but at the same time, it still feels controlled. the turning is insanely effortless and i genuinely feel like i can just throw turns at it without worrying as much about lockups

the magnets and overall feel are literally also js chef’s kiss. GAN somehow managed to make a cube that feels incredibly fast without making it feel uncontrollable. compared to the v11 and the likes, this one just feels more refined and polished in almost every way

well obviously i literally just got it soo i still need to break it in and get used to the feel, but first impressions? this cube is absolutely insane😭🔥

right now, the gan 17 might genuinely be my favorite cube of all time lowk

I thought I'd follow-up on my First Impressions post. I'll share what I've done, then my new 2nd-generation impressions of the new GAN17.

For background, I've been an active "speed-cuber" for about 1.5 years. I'm older, so I can't get my brain to work like you young folks - I'm barely sub-60. But I have pretty fast TPS for the algs I know, I just slow at F2L recognition & only know the 2-look LL algs. I like to compare & collect interesting cubes & switch things up, so I have 10 "mains," a few retired mains, and a few for collectible reasons that were never mains. The "important" mains I have are: Ferrocore v2, Super Aolong, Super Weilong V2 ai, and GAN16 Max (others if you care: SwiftBlock ML & SML, V100, GuHong Pro+)

Here's what I've done w/ the GAN17:

• Swapped in the strongest magnet rods
• Removed the edge-foot magnets
• De-lubed & re-lubed (thin pre-broken-in Gravitas layer + DNM-37)

Here are my new updated impressions:

TL/DR:

• The lube-job quieted the cube significantly. It's no longer louder than my 16.
  • It sounds different, but not louder.
• The "Stickiness" is basically gone. I can force a face to stick if I try, but it never happens when solving.
• I removed the edge-foot magnets to see if they were contributing to the noise
  • (before re-lubing) - it helped a little, but wasn't worth the lost auto-homing.
• I feel like the stronger magnet rods made it louder.
  • I also felt like this made the auto-homing so string that some double-flicks actually "returned" to finish as single-flicks. Still assessing this.

See "details" in first comment if interested.

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