Not2Bitter wrote:I think the main difference between this and the Pro700 is attention to detail. I have had a Technika Profi IV for almost two years and I love it. Having played with a few Profitec machines I just think ECM puts more care into designing these machines over the Profitec.

Little things like the weight at the end of the portafilter handle that gives them more balance and looks nicer. The rails on the frame under the drip tray so you don't scratch the paint off and end up with rust(tho I think they may have adopted this more recently on the Profitec's as well). My machine is plumbed in and it's much easier to hit line pressure pre-infusion by lifting my lever than the other e61 machines I've used, a simple first click, no fussing with trying to find the sweet spot.

Besides that I think they are very similar. I would tell someone in the market either machine will make them happy, but the ECM will just be a little nicer to use every day.



Here are some potato quality videos I made to show what I meant.

vpnogueira wrote:Hello Not2Bitter,

Supposing that the ECM Synchronika is plumbed, so it has [2 bar] line pressure, looking at your first video (the one that shows the water), it seems that it not only can do preinfusion at line pressure (e.g. 2 bar) in the first click position, but later after going to full pressure, you put it back to the first click position and it goes back to line pressure (e.g. 2 bar) and only later you end it. So it seems it can do a limited pressure profiling with three levels (line pressure during X seconds, full pressure during Y seconds, line pressure during Z seconds). Is this correct?

Thanks,

vpnogueira

Not2Bitter wrote:That is exactly whats happening. It's a very versatile machine.

I have a linea mini now, and I'm about to sell the ECM but I can say that the ECM is much more forgiving because of the ability to control the pre infusion.