You would need to adjust pressurestat (marked on your photo). If yellow thing is not a screw it's possible that you will need to take a cap off to adjust it. {image} Zarko

I've had a chance to drink a coffee from Miele built-in "espresso machine". Machine was not plumbed it was just built in. You need to add water manually like with any other super automatic machine. Machine was unable to produce anything similar to espresso. Basically it produces filter coffee on dem...

It sounds like nickel flecks to me. Check out this thread: "Silver flecks after de-scaling Zaffiro" Zarko

Yes it's 50% reduction. Single is too small for me to make on regular basis but it's a good thing to make when you want to experiment. Otherwise you end up with lots of wasted coffee or too much caffeine in the system :D

Am I the only one that doesn't change grind?

Here is my setup: {image} La San Marco 85 + La San Marco SM 90 grinder Zarko