I just got an
Aeolus Lite and it is incredible for flavor. It's my first top-airflow RDA, and I had thought that top airflow would be "iffy" for flavor, since bottom-airflow RDA's tend to have better flavor than traditional side airflow RDA's, and top-airflow is the exact opposite of bottom-airflow. It just didn't seem that it would work, since air would have to come in through the top, go down to the coil, and then back up again, working "against" the downward inlet air. But it actually works amazingly well. It kills all of my bottom-airflow RDA's (Magma, Freakshow, Holmes V2) for flavor, without the leakiness that plagues most bottom-airflow drippers. And with the airflow wide open, it does a damn good job chucking clouds as well. Not as good as a dedicated cloud competition dripper of course, but not that far behind in vapor production.
At $40 for a
very well made authentic RDA, the Aeolus Lite is a steal. It is by far the best mid-range RDA, outperforming many high-end RDA's costing several times more. And it is a very simple and tidy design with a lot of elegance and class, without any tacky screen-printed logos or pictures, just a cleanly-engraved "AE
oLŪS" on the side of the top cap. It is also available in many different colors, everything from the standard stainless and matte black, to absolutely gorgeous and bright teal, purple, blue, red, pink, or lime green, to classy white and dark blue, red, or green.
I'm of course still in the "excited about a new piece of gear" stage, but I honestly think this is the closest to perfection that I've seen yet, at
any price. An authentic RDA with incredible flavor, excellent clouds with the airflow opened up, a great and elegant design that will look good on just about any mod, amazing variety in available colors, extremely well-made with good materials (PEEK insulators, gold-plated brass contacts, square center post that won't spin, two o-rings for every connection, high-quality screws, etc.), both a matched-color 510 drip tip and a black wide-bore chuff cap included, and all but impossible to leak due to the top airflow design, all for just $40? Syntheticloud really raised the bar with the Aeolus Lite.