
Originally Posted by
bronny
My La Pavoni EBR broke and am looking to replace. I'm in NZ so we don't have the variety of brands available in OZ so options (in $NZ = about $0.8AU) are the Silvia $950, Gaggia Classic about $750 and lelit ($1200?). There may be others I just don't recognise, but from these seems to suddenly get VERY expensive.
I'm a 1-2 coffees a day person, as i'm from Wellington, generally a flat white. My partner drinks the occasional macchiato at the weekends.
I was pretty happy with the Pavoni and think these machines i've listed are probably the equivalent. My understanding from youtube is that the PID is on the lelit but not the other two? I've heard that Gaggia is not well supported in NZ. I really want to stay under $1,000 unless there's a good reason to go up another couple hundy - but anymore not really worth it for 1 coffee a day.
I'm really anti the consumer machines like Breville (ha, autocorrected to revile) as I'm sick of rubbish that will be in landfill in a couple years. I'm open to used - but just don't seem to be many.
TIA