Neat! I got to play with that one just a bit at
Cuvée Coffee here in Houston (Spring, TX to be precise) when they had my dad and me up there for a cupping (
Flickr Set--the photos of the cupping start in the second row of the set). Their roaster Clancy really favors it. I was duly impressed with the way it works--everything you praise, really, Jason. But I can't help my intuition that it's a grinder that will be like a BMW. The super-hot, maybe a little superficial, high maintenance girlfriend. Good performance, very clean, but how easily will its electronics go, how easy will it be to fix yourself, and how much will parts cost? Maybe I am totally off and they are super reliable in the long term, and easy to repair, but they sure look intimidating vs. a gigantic hunk of aluminum with a single external switch on it that is every Mazzer made until these new whizz-bang Electronic grinders--and even those look impressively geared towards a messy shop (which my bar is not).
Anyway, I look forward to reading more feedback from you. I have to take exception to your clumping comment. Cuvée's K30 was extremely clumped--to the point of annoyance. I noticed serious resistance to the clumps breaking against my finger as I was leveling. Granted, that did not stop the roaster from pulling some out-of-this world espresso on their prototype LM 3-group with the classic paddle-wheel groups... Anyway, one thing that shocked me about Cuvée is that they had ONLY Super Jollies, Mahlkönigs, and LM Swifts in the shop. There was not a single conical in sight, which was disappointing because I wanted to ask about what they observed as far as differences in flavors between the Mahlkönig and the big Mazzer conicals.
For my part, my heart is set on a Robur for Christmas (sold my road bike and started saving a little while ago), unless something significant happens. It would be nice if Congress could just bypass Wall Street and let all the idiot bankers that got us into this mess starve in the streets, and pass that $700bn bailout straight to Main Street. What is the number per tax payer, like $10k? Heck, I'll take that, and I promise to put the money back into the economy to bolster it by buying a Robur (OK, that will mostly help Italy) and a Synesso (can't knock that, right?). Come on, Home Baristas! Call your congressman and tell them that you have a crisis in your kitchen, and you need a big bailout to stave off your depression!