New 6x6 & 7x7 from Moyu

Hey guys, my birthday is coming soon and I wanted to get my first 6x6 and 7x7. I think for 7x7 I'm gonna get an SS Mini 7x7.

Can anyone who has the Aoshi and SS 6x6 tell me which (in all honesty) they prefer, and why?
 
If this is would be your first 6x6 then it doesn't matter which one you buy. I would choose AoShi since I have pretty bad experience with SS 6x6.
 
I think I prefer my Aoshi over my SS now. It was really slow at first, but after the first 50 or so solves it's fairly broken in. After putting more lube in and another few solves, it has a similar feel to my AoChuang now... albeit still not as fast.

My SS popped when I first got it and it was slow. Then I put in Dayan springs, tightened it down, and lubed it. Then it was fast, and popped less, but still pops. I loosened by Aoshi a smidge after a while, and it still has never popped.

The Aoshi jams up a bit sometimes, but nothing major. It's easy to get out of. Just teaches me to turn more accurately.

I think the main difference is the feel. They both feel completely different. I'm a huge fan of the bumpy/grindy feel of the Ao mechanism. All of my mains are Moyu's now, except for 7x7... mini SS is still the best. But for 6x6, it's probably gonna come down to preference for a lot of people. I prefer the AoShi.
 
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TraciAG said:
Can anyone who has the Aoshi and SS 6x6 tell me which (in all honesty) they prefer, and why?
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If it's your first 6x6 and the higher price doesn't put you off, I would say AoShi, because it's easier to solve out of the box. I'm slow and don't do much 6x6, but my SS would need a lot more breaking in to be even comparable to my AoShi.
 
guysensei1 said:
Has anyone had any success at making the AoShi good? I've got a replacement oblique coming and I'm gonna try a ton of spring swaps.
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I took mine apart completely, and put 5ccs of Cubicle weight 2 in mine. Once the lube gets fully worked in, I think it'll be really good, at the moment, it's mostly worked it, so it's just pretty good (about a good as my AoChuang).
 
guysensei1 said:
Has anyone had any success at making the AoShi good? I've got a replacement oblique coming and I'm gonna try a ton of spring swaps.
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After the first 2 or 3 solves, the factory lube got worked in and it was better than out of box.
After the first 20 or 30 solves, it was pretty well broken in and was almost as fast as my SS.
After putting some 25ct shock oil in it, it had a feeling very similar to my AoChuang. The cutting is far more forgiving than my SS. It doesn't pop at all, unlike my SS. And it jams way less often than my SS.

On the other hand, the SS is still faster and has better outer layers. 3x3 stage on the Moyu is often a little frustrating, because I keep expecting it to perform as well. But it deforms out of cubeshape a lot which makes fast turning on the outer layers hard for me. I'm hoping I'll get used to that. Overall, I enjoy solving my Moyu way more than my SS right up until 3x3 stage.
 
guysensei1 said:
You put 5ccs of lube into your cube?!
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Yeah, I did, and as it turns out, it worked out pretty well! It was ridiculously sluggish at first (It added something like 2 minutes to my solve times), but after about 20 solves, it got worked in more, and it's now a bit gummy, but it's pretty good, and still getting better!
 
After a few weeks with the moyu 6x6, I'm beginning to really enjoy solving this cube. It really takes a while to work it in. The speed has improved quite a bit. The inner layers have always been better than on my shengshou, but now the outer layers are almost there as well. It isn't as fast as my shengshou (and probably won't be) but it locks up and catches much less.

I've lubed it with 50k and lots of maru lube. As with the 5x5, I used one cc or so of 50k in the beginning, and then dropped in the maru whenever it felt sluggish. In the beginning, I dropped in ~10 drops or so every couple days, but now its down to once a week and turning very smoothly.
 
Ok, I have spring swapped this with SS mini 7x7 springs (which may or may not be the same as the SS 6x6 ones) and the cube is good. I can't say too much with a missing piece, but the 'flimsyness' seems to be resolved.
 
Cubic MoYu AoFu 7×7×7 !
Before we release the cubic AoFu, we will release MoYu 6×6, MoYu 13×13, MoYu pyraminx, another 4×4 and 5×5 MoYu cube, and dozens of irregularly shaped MoYu puzzles. Sorry for the delay, if you are in a hurry to want the cubic AoFu.
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So does this mean that we are close??
 
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