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I'm sold.
digs out wallet..

Hadnt heard of an aeropress until I got started on this thread. Are they any better / comparable to, lets say a french press?

None at the moment, I've been buying pre-ground. It's been one of those things where I know that a minimum investment needs to be made in order to get one thats worthwhile, so it still remains unpurchased.

After playing about (and trying an insanely amount of coffee) I am wondering whether to return the Cubika and plod along with my cafetiere & bialetti for the time being until I can afford something better. General opinion seems to be a model like the Classica is the minimum to go for.. It seems, from what I read, that sub £200 machines just dont cut it. Maybe I was naive to thing that one would. Either that or I invest in a decent grinder to with the the cafetiere instead of spending money on an inferior machine. Thoughts?

I know, I had working my way through the thread most of yesterday and could see the consensus was that the Classica was the way to go. However, the reduced Cubika at £90 fits my price range at the moment. It was easy enough to convince the missus with it being half price. Not so easy to convince her to spend 200 notes when im the only person in the house that drinks coffee :-)

less tamper seems to do the trick.

@andy.w: how so? looking at the machines (cubica, classic, baby) next to eachother in store I couldnt quite gather what the difference would be between them apart from obvious build quality. Are the internals that much different? I can appreciate the cheaper model is much more plasticy and things like buttons and switches are likely to fail sooner.

Picked one of these up in the end. Still require a lot of tweaking to get the strength right tho. I'm currently getting quite a bit of blonding, in spite of the grounds being tampered down as tight as I can get them.

Was just about to post this myself!

Is this a good buy then or what? just reserved myself one at Currys just in case.