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Nice machine that factory, same as a Pavoni. Manual lever espresso is the awesomest, after a while you get this intuition for applying the pressure - gentle preinfusion ramping up to full extraction pressure and tailing off as the coffee exhausts, all in a seamlessly analogue fashion to give the best textured espresso you will ever have... ahhh.
Seriously, all these hyped up mega machines like slayers and stradas don't come close. You have to sweat about temperature control, and they're not easy machines to master but there's plenty of info about and they're dead rewarding.