Re: Detailed comparison - EM6910 vs Silvia
I guess what really matters is which is more thermally stable, not so much how that thermal stability is derived. Sunbeam and Rancilio go about it using different methods, and it appears that for whatever reason the Silvias performance is superior in that regard. My understanding (without having opened the Sunbeam) is that the Silvia has a greater quantity of metal in the brewing areas which provides that thermal stability. That may well not be the case, but a number of factors referred to in the review point to a greater thermal inertia in the Silvia than the Sunbeam (warm-up and cool-down times for example). These would have to be satisfactorily explained some other way were that not the case.
There are certainly other ways the test could have been run but that was what I could do with the limited resources I could supply out of my own toolkit. Would be good to see someone elses take on the same thing!
Greg
I guess what really matters is which is more thermally stable, not so much how that thermal stability is derived. Sunbeam and Rancilio go about it using different methods, and it appears that for whatever reason the Silvias performance is superior in that regard. My understanding (without having opened the Sunbeam) is that the Silvia has a greater quantity of metal in the brewing areas which provides that thermal stability. That may well not be the case, but a number of factors referred to in the review point to a greater thermal inertia in the Silvia than the Sunbeam (warm-up and cool-down times for example). These would have to be satisfactorily explained some other way were that not the case.
There are certainly other ways the test could have been run but that was what I could do with the limited resources I could supply out of my own toolkit. Would be good to see someone elses take on the same thing!
Greg


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