Re: Which will work best for me?

I'd personally rather have a used commercial HX with a passive group heating
system like the E61, than a compromise design like the One Black. But for
its price it looks like a kick-ass machine with a phenomenal warranty! I did
work on a Salvatore commercial HX machine, and if the One Black is built
like it was then anyone buying one has probably bought their last machine.

Let's see, which is the better deal?

$1100 - One Black
235 - Tranquilo
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$1335 Total

$870 - PID'd Silvia
375 - Rocky
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$1245 Total
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Robert (Tex) Harmon

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"Flasherly" <Flasherly@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Oct 11, 10:55 pm, "Gym-Rat" <Gym-...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
A Rancilio Silvia & Rocky or Salvatore One Black & Cunill Tranquillo?
Both
alternatives would be similar in price. I make a dozen or so shots per
day,
probably 2/3 of them lattes & caps.

I'm VERY picky about the quality of what I consume, so if I have to I can
move the budget up some.

Jimmie

For a $1.7-2.2K range on Salvatore, a Cunill seems underkill.

Liked a Cunill, though briefly -- particularly its burrs. Burrs that
didn't seem mealy-mouthed about getting into finer flour consistency
near espresso territory. Just a fluke mine would bind and I had to
send it back in short order. Dishonest merchant (elsewhere) then sent
me a conical Ascaso for the flat-burr model price I paid, and that's
about all convenience has to say in settling the matter -- (arbitrated
the difference and kept the lesser). ...the Cunill, in hindsight
though, did seem it *might* be more messy;- nor sure how now I'd
appreciated that really big, 40-step pegged adjustment dial. Ascaso
employs cute little brass worm-gear auger in a stepless design.

Silvia/Rocky, nah, couldn't comment ... Ponte Vecchio and La Pavoni
are too distracting (just kidding).

http://www.1st-line.com/machines/home_mod/isomac/Isomac_tea_espresso_machine.htm



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