If it’s even true, I’d prefer my system’s tone controls to be in my hands, not someone else’s.
Makes sense to me too.
Happy cake day, Lonson!
Oh no. . . another one? I just had a slice of pumpkin pie!
Did somebody say pumpkin pie???
Have another! It’s your Cake Day - pie is a great substitute!
What’s really funny is that I’ve been for the last week and a half looking for the best reviews on what coffee makers to get and I happen to have a PS audio partial system. It’s hilarious to me that the things I like can be discussed the same form.
Yup another one!
Happy Pie Day.
Happy Cake Days, time flies and we are getting wiser!
Happy cake day lonson!
Great machine. I have one with flow control. I switched after periodic maintenance on an Italian job whose innards looked like a plate of spaghetti. Open this up and the layout is fantastic. Still not always easy or simple to update, but a lot nicer for servicing.
Yep. Like power into your gear, the right water into coffee is key.
I use the BWT filtration system. Highly recommended if you are doing an under-sink system with a hard-line to your espresso machine.
I just purchased a new grinder as well.
The “sale” price seems to be “the” price. Everywhere I have looked it seems that’s the price listed. It gets great reviews. I’m looking forward to playing with it.
I don’t have a single dose grinder, but only single dose when I grind (and from coffee properly stored, and that means not in a hopper). Non-hopper grinders make perfect sense to me, as I weight out the coffee I grind. Most grinders that have pre-sets are time not weight based and I just don’t like storing coffee in anything other than a sealed environment.
I’m guessing you’re already aware of these, but I’ll leave the link here in case it’s any interest for our participants:
I’ll add: I’m not familiar with Turin grinders and certainly don’t mean to suggest you need anything else!
Thanks for thinking of me!
Either the Monolith Flat MAX2 or the Weber EG-1 will be on my upgrade path. I think the DF83 is simply a gateway drug.
Me too. I know with this grinder I will weigh before and after grinding for a little while to get a sense of retention. But I am guessing once the burrs are seasoned and I get used to the bellows, I will get to a point where I will only weigh Pre-grind.
Weighing is really the only means to ensure consistency and remove variables. Even at its most simple, one part beans to two parts water, processed during an average of thirty seconds at 9 Bar, gets most people in the ballpark of a decent espresso. Clearly there’s enough room within those precepts to make some changes to dial-in to something really tasty.
First grinder was a Mazzer SJ and then an upgrade to Mazzer Kony as I prefer conical burrs. Lovely machine but really for high volume and it was a pia adapting home-made bellows for single dosing, plus you had to purge(waste) loads of coffee every time you changed the grind.
Happily the Niche Zero came along as a Kickstarter in the UK with identical 63mm conical burr set to the Kony and it’s very well made as well as being a third of the price.
Turns out those of use who spritz a little water onto our beans before grinding can now feel smug:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590238523005684
In audiophile terminology, water in this instance is acting like the dielectric component of cables
Got one of these, too, although in black. Pairs nicely with an ECM Puristika.