Neptune 4 Max

I have experience with both, the SV08Max is significantly better but still nowhere close to bambu reliability. My Neptune 4 Max sits in a trash pile because the heated bed died.

This! Not sure why so many people do prints with straight lines across large curved surfaces. There will always be plastic shrinkage, and I know my printer shakes itself out of level every print (Neptune 4 max). Plan for it to not line up and hide the seams.

All printers require some initial assembly and setup. The issue with the Neptune series is that they are antiquated. You have to manually calibrate several settings (many of which change if you move the machine, switch build plates, switch filaments, etc.) that are automatically calibrated on the CC

I have multiple of both, lots of hours on each. It's not even a contest, go with Anycubic Kobra Max. Here are the differences: * Auto-leveling and setting of z-offset!! Take a spin around r/ElegooNeptune4 sub and see all the tears shed by people who never get the settings quite right. Kobra Max will