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Thinking I’m probably going to pull the trigger on a second hand Gaggia Classic this week (Rancilio Silvia an option if one pops up). Want to spend no more than £250 and have a machine I won’t outgrow.
Current setup (which has just died on me) is a DeLonghi Micalite, all preground coffee and with a pressurised basket, so the thinking is that the Classic will allow me to start off able to replicate the same procedure I’m on now (bar a longer warm up) but give me the headroom to experiment and eventually move to standard basket and freshly ground once I’ve saved up for a grinder.
Any reason not to?