lennoncs wrote:How come it is so quiet on the GS3 front lately?

Sean

Maybe they think if they quit posting about them they will forget who has them.

shhh....

lennoncs wrote:How come it is so quiet on the GS3 front lately?

Andy...did you fall off the face of the planet?


Sean

Speculation: LM told the privileged few testers to stop commenting; testers overdosed on caffeine; testers are trying to come up with more formulas that this LM will out temp control, out pressure control, out steam produce and control any other machine in the history of mankind; trying to figure out how all of the testers can use just ONE espresso bean to get reliable and valid tests results; trying to solve the "problem" of making this new LM even more accessible to a larger minority of the economic elite consumers(RHIP); testers have been absorbed into this new LM; etc., etc. etc...

Simply put...when it is finally put on the market, it will be a FANTASTIC machine, but sadly VERY FEW espresso enthusiasts will be able to afford it.

betxs wrote:Speculation: Simply put...when it is finally put on the market, it will be a FANTASTIC machine, but sadly VERY FEW espresso enthusiasts will be able to afford it.

That is one of the reasons I still tinker with my Brewtus, if I can get a bit more performance out of an E61, then more people stand to gain in the end.


Sean

lennoncs wrote:That is one of the reasons I still tinker with my Brewtus, if I can get a bit more performance out of an E61, then more people stand to gain in the end.

...and why i tinker with the lineas. there are lots of coffee joints which cannot afford to continually upgrade to the latest machine.


--barry "retrofit!"

lennoncs wrote:How come it is so quiet on the GS3 front lately?

Andy...did you fall off the face of the planet?

Life has a way of intruding upon one's hobbies....I hope to write up a bit on the GS3 sometime soon....

betxs wrote:. . . when it is finally put on the market, it will be a FANTASTIC machine, but sadly VERY FEW espresso enthusiasts will be able to afford it.

Well, as much as I might DREAM of owning an Aston Martin DB5 . . . it sure makes a La Spaziale S1 cheap -- sorry, inexpensive -- by comparison!

The Review is nearly finished!!!

Once we get through final copy and then edits and review it will go live on the site.

Thanks to all for the tons of input, questions, comments and feedback.

It's been a great experience.

I look forward to the full review...

One more question - I'm wondering about the location of the electronics and how much heat they are subjected to? The GS3 is quite compact, a lot of technology packed into a relatively small shell and quite a lot of heat generated by the twin boilers. I would imagine that this makes finding a cool spot for the electronics difficult therefore potentially affecting their longevity, no? I realise that this wouldn't manifest itself during a review / commenting on this might be borderline in terms of the framework set by LM (i.e. not commenting in detail on the internals) - but this was just a though that popped into my mind...

Br,
Teme

It's a good question, but one I'm not qualified to answer.


The review is in final edits. Should be done and public very soon.
Coolness.