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rodabod
Stevethecoffee
I've had a Gaggia Achille which made the best espresso I ever had - That was a manual lever with a heat-exchanger, you really got a feel for when to back off the pressure as the coffee extracted. Shots had a texture like yogurt. Don't buy one though, the build was ropey as fuck and they all go badly wrong.
I also have an old La Peppina, that makes decent coffee but the novelty wore off quite quickly.
BB have a few prosumer type lever machines. The Quickmill one has had problems since birth, I'd avoid that, there's a weird Barazza one which uses a vibe pump so you get a shitty noise - one of the joys of levers is the silence, and there's an ECM one which is really good. That's got a proper massive commercial lever group and doesn't try to be too clever but it's abour 2k I think.