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Cheap...

• OJFord 4y ago
  The quotes around 'pro' were as written though right, I read OP as saying 'this thing was sold to the home user as 'pro', it's expensive for the market'. I don't think someone quoting their own 'pro' is under any disillusions about how much it's used in a commercial setting... I have a Rancilio Silvia that was I think £400 (so, uh, about $400..) and it's a good thing I don't run an espresso bar. The queue out of the door would only ever shrink by people giving up and leaving. For me, it's great, but a machine that needs to make however many shots an hour all day, and peak at say 10x that, is just in a different class. Not even necessarily 'better', it just has different/extra problems to solve which would be engineering gone to waste at home; tank capacity never used, reliability never called upon.