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Are you making drip? How about buy a good grinder and try a #2 melitta cone or a v60? Makes excellent coffee if you have a good grinder and buy good beans. Melitta cone and filters will cost like $8 on amazon. To my palette its in the same league as a clover.
For espresso (which is the thing I need): I've kept an expobar brewtus running for 15 years. Its simple inside, parts available and I can fix whatever breaks. For flavor in the cup it can go head to head with $10k machines.
For a current good reliable machine I like the profitech 600 but you need a good grinder and access to good beans.
The 'automatic' machines you mentioned are pretty complex... I see old ones on the curb. The plastic doesn't tolerate the heat. I wouldn't expect one to last 15 years. And... sort of important... the espresso they make is complete garbage. I am pretty sure these are a gimmick for people that don't taste their coffee.
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