Greetings all. Longtime lurker on CFUK all the virtual way from Southern California. I’m years into my coffee hobby that began with a Krups drip machine and a Braun blade grinder.
Discovered v60 pour overs about 5 years ago after visiting Blue Bottle and experiencing the most incredible coffee I’d ever had at the time.
My explorations extended to French press, Aeropress, and Moka Pot.
During the pandemic my interest expanded to include espresso. Read up on all I could about e61 and saturated groups, lever machines, single and dual boilers and HX.
Settled on a MaraX a year ago based on your famously thorough review @DavecUK and my budget. Thank you!
Also wanna thank @Doram for the equally thorough explanation of the OPV redirect mod with images and subsequent diagrams (I did the original mod you provided).
I find learning the espresso craft is a lot like learning to golf. That one lovely swing among many poor and a few mediocre ones keeps me pursuing that next great shot. It seems like a never ending quest of experimentation, gear, developing and refining, to make repeatable.