Decent has announced the successor to the DE1: the Bengle. Available 2025.
Specs are great, as is the price: $6000.
What bugs me: in this comparison (https://decentespresso.com/bengle) the DE1 is really being played down as if it’s a crappy machine by a competitor.
Decent, please stand by your products.
by Safeword-is-banana
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I’m sure there’s some sort of meme somewhere showing a kid who drops his favorite toy because a new one has come out
I just don’t get it not a fan but I am not a big believer in technology which makes me strange I know lol 😂
Hopefully I can buy a DE1 if they ever put them on sale. Don’t really need the bigger monitor, milk temp probe, more usbs etc
i have a habit of never looking at the sub names of the posts, i totally thought it was some fancy toilet…
Couldn’t you just see this in an IKEA model kitchen showroom? 😉
But wow, US$6K–I guess it’s fortunate that I prefer the earlier model styling. 🙂
Looks great but that price is a no for me
Looking closer at the photos… It’s a plywood… it’s a 6000$ machine made of plywood… Jesus
I think you’re overreacting a little bit. Sure, they’ll say the hot water dispenser on the DE1 splashes a bit, and the steam wand ball joint gets hot while the one on the Bengle stays cool, but that’s about it. If anything, I’m really digging the honest comparison and it clearly reinforces for me how happy I still am with my Decent. The only thing I’d want is a quieter pump, and I’m not paying 4k for that (including selling my current DE1XL for let’s say 2k). Also, the Bengle is not and will not be available in black.
Want
I’m sure it will be really nice but all this tech scares me on a 6k machine.
Judging by their description of the DE1 in the comparison they may as well sell them for $400 since they’re so terrible and the product that’s almost double the price is so revolutionary.
That price is outrageous
I’m sorry but for an object of this size to be worth 6 grand it either has to be made of precious materials or be a bespoke 1/1 custom piece.
$6000 is wild. I’m happy for you guys, but that’s crazy.
My first question would be: what pump?
I don’t hate vibration pumps, they can be very very good, I have one in my budget machine and it’s funny that I know machines that are a few times more expensive and use similar pumps, but it always feels weird if I see machines over 2000 or even more that don’t use rotary or gear pumps.
I mean for 2000 and with all the technical aspects you can totally go for 2 vibration pumps but if this thing is really like 6000 bucks it’s a little confusing why there is no option to choose different pumps.
At least my opinion but I don’t know much about the decent so if I’m wrong and it cant work without rotaries, tell me pls.
Design reminds of something Nordic from 2010. Feels outdated.
I like it. If I earned each month what the machine cost, I would buy it.
I think the new features and design look great. Personally, the machine is not for me but I think it will do well.
$6k? Lol no thanks
I remember this:
Nov 3, 2016 — The DE1 will go for $999.
$6,000? That’s absurd.
And the tech. It’s a very expensive short-term purchase. Many less-complex machines will last 20 years, have fewer failure points, and I shouldn’t be shocked (but am) that people would even consider such an extravagant, unnecessarily complex machine.
This is obviously personal, but the name “Bengle” just rubs ne the wrong way. Have no idea why, just don’t like it. Decent 2 would suffice.
Decent isn’t being downplayed at all. They’re highlighting what you get over the de-1 by spending just shy of twice as much. The format is sound. In fact, plenty of products with tiers benefit from succinct representations of what you get at each level. They did the same thing, already, with their de-1/xl/xxl table.
The comparison is legitimate. Nothing that was said about either model is incorrect. Should they lie about the DE1 specs? Or just not make a new model and strive to improve on each facet of the old?