To provide a contrasting opinion, I got my first Falcon pipes about 3 weeks ago and after smoking them every day for 3 weeks have so thoroughly enjoyed them that I'm pretty sure I'm going to sell almost all my other pipes (aside from my Savinelli 401 Churchwarden for taking to the Renaissance Festival and a couple Missouri Meerschaum Country Gentlemans for outdoor beater pipe use) and just smoke Falcons from here on out.
With most pipes the last 1/3 of the bowl of tobacco ends up getting too wet and harsh from moisture and tar buildup to smoke all the way down to the bottom and I end up throwing it out, but Falcon's humidome system does a really amazing job of drawing moisture and tar away from the tobacco at the bottom of the bowl so I can smoke it all the way to the bottom without it ever turning harsh or wet or the flavor of the tobacco becoming off. There is zero wasted tobacco with the Falcon system, and not having to throw away 1/3 of my tobacco every time I smoke is a pretty awesome thing! Never having to run a pipe cleaner down the stem to clear out a gurgle mid-smoke is a great bonus too.
I also like that I can smoke the same stem all day and just swap bowls depending on the type of blend I want to smoke, or stick a meerschaum bowl on it and just smoke it all day with no worries. Really the only suggestion I'd make regarding Falcons from my experience so far is to not bother buying Falcon's dry rings and just make your own instead. All you need to do is tightly wrap a pipe cleaner around a pen to make a coil out of it then take a pair of wire cutters and snip off pipe cleaner rings. They work just the same and cost 1/10th as much, if that.
In any case, I can safely say that out of the 16 pipes I own, I have never had a cooler, drier, and more flavorful smoke all the way down to the bottom of the bowl than with my Falcons and at this point I don't have much desire to smoke any other style of pipe.
