1Zpresso The X: the Magnet Cup Is Gone, the Verdict Is Not In

39 mm burr, 90 clicks — The X keeps the small heptagonal burr of the X-Ultra — 39 mm outer, 30 mm inner, stainless steel — and gains a finer dial: 90 grids per turn at 0.0111 mm each, against 60 grids at 0.0125 mm on the X-Ultra, a gap an X-Pro owner re-counted in the launch post's comments; the post says the burr covers pour-over and home espresso (maker slide, X-Ultra page, launch post).

Magnets out, lugs in — The catch cup is now a buckle-on bottle that seats on lugs instead of a magnetic one, and the wooden ball is fixed rather than pushed on, so it cannot work loose while grinding; the maker's own slide sets both changes point by point against the X-Ultra (maker slide).

Carton, one finish, 25–30 g — The X ships in a carton in a single silver finish and holds 25–30 g of grounds depending on the bean, where the X-Ultra comes in a zippered case in three colours at 590 g and 17 × 18.5 × 5.2 cm; weight and dimensions for The X are still unpublished (launch post, X-Ultra specs).

Show debut, still no price — The X gets its first public outing at the Taiwan International Coffee Show on 13–16 November, with a launch discount for buyers on the stand, while 1Zpresso's global store still lists 32 items and not this one, so there is no published price outside Taiwan and no answer yet to buyers asking when it goes on sale online (launch post, X-Ultra).

Verdict · Reddit · r/pourover — The two fixes land — Owners name the same two failures the redesign answers: u/Prof_Hentai has knocked the magnetic cup off "multiple times during grinding", and u/postmoderno's wooden ball came off last week and left the grinder "barely usable" (thread).

Reaction · Reddit · r/pourover — A magnet that never failed — Two owners in the same reply chain say the magnet has never let go on them and wonder whether it was revised since launch, which makes the lugs the answer to a loud subset rather than to every owner (thread).

Objection · Reddit · r/pourover — Is the burr even new? — The thread cannot settle whether the burr changed: one reply counts 14 outer teeth where the X-Pro S has 12, another calls The X "just a re-release of the x ultra" keeping "the sharper teeth on the outer burr we dont like", and a third finds it worse on every spec but adjustment range (thread).

Reaction · Reddit · r/pourover — The lineup has no middle — With 51 comments and no brew report, the thread's dominant note is confusion about where The X sits between the Q and the K, and the thread's top-voted comment defers to side-by-side brews "once many enthusiasts" run them (thread).