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To be fair, my Minima came with 3 portafilters (including bottomles) and baskets. I won’t mention the tamper it came with

    Thats good, mone came with a standard and naked was provided by black cat from memory

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    Yes that’s correct, Black Cat threw in the bottomless - it’s not in the ACS accessories, but it came with a double and single spouted portafilter and baskets. The blanking disk was rubber as opposed to a metal basket.

    Cuprajake I’m in contact with ACS about potentially buying a Minima and they have been investigating ways to make the pump quieter and if it works, they could put it on the machine I would order. To me that may tilt the balance toward the Minima!! They also suggested that changing the pump for the MaraX pump would be doable. The person I’m exchanging with is also investigating other options with Paolo so there may be other options.

    So I’ll wait until I know more from them. But so far I’m glad I didn’t get the Bianca too quickly since I may save some money to improve my grinder.

    BTW, what do you guys consider a necessary upgrade to a Eureka Silenzio? I may move this question to the grinder section since I don’t want to derail this thread.

        Snooze Do you have details for the ACS? If I can’t get the used Minima I want to discuss with them an alteration to the power supply on a new one.

            simonc I went directly on their website for that. I will not post their email here to avoid potential spamming. Unless the moderator wish to do it.

              simonc Do you have details for the ACS? If I can’t get the used Minima I want to discuss with them an alteration to the power supply on a new one

              I think this is probably your best bet

                Snooze This is what drew me to ACS as they’re continually developing and if my one didn’t appear on eBay I was in discussion about buying a new one too. If they manage to improve the pump noise they’ll be onto a winner!

                    Alexvs I would love a new one but at the moment hoping to get used as saves a lot of money.

                        Snooze Interested to see what they come up with on the pump noise. I can make a coffee with everyone still asleep and not wake anyone up, so isn’t an issue here, but improvements are always interesting and tempting.

                          simonc It’s exactly what I did and was lucky to grab a bargain as mine also had the profiling kit fitted. They don’t come up too often but hopefully you’ll find one too 👍🏼

                            LMSC 100 per cent, 1zpresso make excellent hand grinders…J-Max is one of my grinders and I love it

                            I seriously considered the Minima and really like it, but my wife gets to make her own coffees two weeks out of three and the Minimas looks were…. challenging for her…happy wife, peaceful life..lol..so Mara X for her, Elektra Leva for me to mess about with.

                              Good day everyone. Except the Lelit Bianca, which dual boiler on the market is comparable if not better than the ACS Minima? We compare the Minima to the MaraX because of the similarity in size and price but it would be interested to hear from you what you think is comparable. I’ll start a comparative table to help me in my decision although so far it’s between MaraX, Minima and Bianca. But there must be in between choices to consider.
                              Thanks!!

                                Snooze Good day everyone. Except the Lelit Bianca, which dual boiler on the market is comparable if not better than the ACS Minima?

                                That’s a very difficult question with no real answer, it depends on what’s better to you. e.g. The Minima is a better steamer than the Lelit Bianca…It’s “probably” a better steamer than most dual boilers on the market. Does that make it better than a Bianca?

                                e.g. Before my mums Dementia got really bad….I bought her the best phone I could.

                                Was it this?

                                or was it this

                                Obviously it was the second phone…because she wouldn’t have been able to use the first one, which also has a battery life of a day or so, compared to 1 month or more on standby. The first one was far more than she needed

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                                    DavecUK haha I like the example! I sometimes miss my first Nokia phone!! :)

                                    So far I’m interested into trying all the different parameters adjustment possible with the Bianca but without ever having done so, it’s hard to really know if I’ll use it once I’ll have find what works best for me. Although I’m quite sure I will. The Minima has the size, cost and steaming advantage. And the possibility to install a flow control if I ever want to so it would be closing the gap with the Bianca a little bit.

                                    While you can’t say what my needs are, which other machine on the market would you consider in that price range if you could not get a Minima nor a Bianca?

                                    Thanks again Dave!

                                        Snooze While you can’t say what my needs are, which other machine on the market would you consider in that price range if you could not get a Minima nor a Bianca?

                                        Dual Boilers, it’s difficult

                                        In the price range £1300 to £1900, there are not a lot of dual boilers. If ECM make something in that range, they would be good. A used Vesuvius, one day a used Evo….Everything else seems more expensive…

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                                            There is less maintenance with the Minima, as there’s no lever. Was a big plus for me

                                              DavecUK ok thanks. Again in your opinion, what would be the next money stretch worth doing and for what? 2200, 2500?