I feel where your coming with this... I've hit both, toro, US roor, and DE roor....
I definitely find something very appealing about a perfectly formed - perfectly fused on all joints - bong. Sure, you can add all this fancy shit to make the smoke travel through and smooth it out, but a nice roor straight tube is amazing to smoke from. It just has this unique quality of perfectly billowing a single, even cylinder of milk straight to your mouth, and clears like a dream.
This is why I don't like ROOR US as much, as they tend to add all this fancy shit, where the germans stay refined.
Poplars, I caution you against looking at everyondoesit, after seeing your post on the previous page in 09. They charged me, then took 4 months to send glass, then forgot a fucking bowl while they were at it. I must have sent, 60 emails to get my stuff sent I kid you not. I'm a persistent motherfucker when it comes to money though.
If I wanted to get a roor straight tube [in years, after a phX and something else] I would get something like this.. 18m Beaker bottom straight tube, and add a diffused downstem
Roor is like bently.
They are expensive bongs, that cost a lot, but look like other cheaper bongs... they are simple, yet elegant... and a lot of detail was paid attention to on the simple stuff
Just like a Bentley costs a lot... yet looks like some Chrysler..... Bentley aren't ferraris, but they are elegant in their own way... bentleys with supple round lines and a powerful engine. You can guarantee on a Bentley that NOTHING was looked over, everything done to exact perfection...
almost a perfect comparison.
Now if you had the choice, Bentley, or ferrari.. what would you pick?