Very well put! I can absolutely relate to that - as long as it works, who cares how they display it. Of course, for the Dalla Corte the temp stability still needs to be proved true and I am looking forward to some Scace measurements. As for the Super Mini it is a pretty big boy, and I am

Hello Chris Nachtrieb, It is of course understandable that you feel obliged to raise the flag in favour of the brand of machines you have chosen to import. From my perspective as home barista, however, it really isn't a question of one machine over the other and no machine becomes better by flauntin...

Hey Niko, Well, you may be right about group design - I would need a proper side-by-side comparison to check that further. Interestingly, even the Danish price for the Dalla Corte seems slightly cheaper than UK vendors for the La Spaziale. The temperature adjustment is very easy to work with. Since ...

Hi, Ad KcKc: The Dalla Corte is about 2000 EUR here in Denmark, but I wouldn't count on that for international comparisons, prices tend to be somewhat higher in Denmark than most other places. Ad Niko: I am really not trying to make an argument a la "my machine is better than yours", so sorry if it ...

Hello, I just posted a review of the Dalla Corte on Coffeegeek. I must say, I really like this machine. I have only had cursory experience with the La Spaziale. Given that the head engineer at Dalla Corte is ex-Spaziale I would assume them to be very similar and they do share some parts. The big dif...

It's a KYM, not a microcimbali - although I'll venture a guess that they probably share some internal components. Try doing a search on CG for details - I remember someone having one. Best T

Dear all, Good to see a riviera/ponte vecchio thread going. I had one of these (chrome riviera eagle, aka zacconi, aka gensaco) a few years ago before passing it on to a friend. Back then advice was really scarce, but then the lever forum didn't exist at that time. Despite the excellent advice above...

Hey, I agree with cannonfodder, the millenium edition certainly adds some useful improvements. To make things even more complicated, however, there is a very old model, hardly ever seen anymore, that may actually outperform both the newer ones. The very early edition sported a much higher quality ba...

Hey, I have been mainly a pavoni man myself, but did own the elektra leva for a few months as well. To me it sounds like your grind is too fine. Given the long extraction rate and destroyed pucks, I would suspect that you have too much initial resistance in the puck forcing the water to eventually t...

...oh, and get that camera out, so we can see some documentation!!