Hey! Don’t be throwing that in my face! 
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Yeah, I use the stock burrs that come with it. They work great. Those upgraded burrs are almost as much as the machine and are specific to various flavor effects. It parallels all the various audio tweaks, sure they no doubt improve the result, but at a huge cost relative to the price of the component at times.
One thing about grinders though, not all grinders are capable of all coffee grinding needs, ie fine enough grind for espresso or coarse enough for French press, etc. Consistent grinding and ability to make fine adjustments are very important to repeatable results.
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Exactly!
I’ll agree with you on this!
I personally would stick to the stock burrs. After a while you might want to try one of the other two. You won’t know/appreciate the difference until you run stock for a while.
Not forgetting of course the ‘seasoning’ time required for new burrs, analogous to burn-in time in audiophile parlance 
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Mmm, must be on the Bella Barista mailing list too 
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I have a lot of money invested in my coffee set up and it’s respectibly high end for a home coffee bar: Malkhonig ek43S, ECM Synchronika with flow control, BigStep tamper and distributor, VST baskets, upgraded shower head, ACAIA scale, other tools, proper water treatment system, etc. And seems like a bargain compared to high-end audio.
Latest purchases: AirLens, WWSLP7 I2S cable, better PC for the AirLens, HD Plex LPS for the Roon ROCK NUC … still to come: upgraded PC for the LPS and better connecting cords between the LPS and what it powers. Really feels like there’s no end to the chain – but stopping in between feels like cutting corners. Guess this is just sitting in the middle of the high cost of squeezing the last few percentage points of improvement of my system.
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I HIGHLY recommend GAIA feet for your grinder and hard wiring in a Furutech power cable. 
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Gee, I thought my Nespresso machine was pretty nifty until I poked around in this thread.
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Nespresso is like a Sprout100, it does everything right! For coffee that’s good enough for me too.
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I am so disappointed! My Synchronika didn’t arrive yesterday. I called the dealer, Clive Coffee, to learn that it hasn’t shipped because of an extra Portafilter (bottomless) that I ordered. Instead of calling or emailing me to see if I was OK with taking delivery without it they held the order. Asked when the Portafilter was going to be available, I was informed “no ETA”. Did they think I was going to wait indefinitely? I requested them to ship without. I was then informed that it will “probably” ship at the end of the week with seven days of delivery time. Asked what “probably” meant and sensing my dissatisfaction they responded with “I will see what I can do”. Four weeks to deliver something in stock? Tomorrow morning I hope they enjoy discussing the email I just sent the owner.
I hate poor customer service. I am tempted to cancel.
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Be careful, coffee may make you more nervous! And a nice infusion machine, like chamomile?
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I had a decent grilled- cheese sandwich yesterday.
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Cheese toasties!
Now that is an important topic worthy of a whole forum to itself 
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Don’t get me started on grilling. Speaking of that, I need to grill an aged prime rib for 4 hours on Christmas Eve again. Darn, inflation shows up in beef for sure😧
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I am torn between these two grinders. I may buy both.
https://www.kafatek.com/index.php/monolith-titan-flat-burr-espresso-grinder/
Seems to be a waiting list on the Z1.
You don’t like waiting, do you 
All the “better” grinders seem to be on some sort of waiting list. The Z1 requires $10 USD to get on the list!!!
For what it’s worth, I have a Flat - not the Max - and recently received the MC5 conical (now superseded by the MC6) and I don’t think you can go wrong with any of the Kafatek grinders.
I am not an extreme-light roast kinda coffee person, which is what the Flat and especially Max are targeting, so I’m favoring the MC5 at the moment. (I prefer medium roast, like Caffe Lusso’s Gran Miscela Carmo.)
If you’re not into light roasts, the MC6 might be a great choice to consider.
And for the record I’m still enjoying Roon, with or without a grilled cheese sammich.
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