I don't think the different height has much to do with it - I'm fairly tall and tamp on the kitchen bench so angle of impact (so to speak) doesn't vary much. Also I am not tamping hard anyway - I dose and tamp 3 or 4 times as I fill the basket, but at way less than half the pressure advocated normally.
I find it gives a very even puck that normally doesn't even need a 'bang' to get it to flick out cleanly from the basket. Note that I was doing this before I got naked. And it is easier to do in the VST's because they don't have the sloped sides of the Sunbeam baskets.

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