sounds like you made a huge step up there.
now you might have to upgrade that sunbeam grinder as well

. In addition to that, parts are easy to come by and if you want to go down the modification route (PID etc.) there are quite a few aftermarket kits and installers out there. Speaking as the owner of a Silvia V3, the one drawback (that is, if you really want the machine to live up to it's coffee making potential) is that banging out more than 2 coffees does take a little longer and is quite involved (do a search on temp surfing in a Silvia). I cannot speak for the other machines (although I did consider them prior to the Silvia) but if you have the patience to learn about the brewing and frothing, with good beans, you can reproduce near cafe-quality coffee for the Silvia and definitely better than the Cafe Roma (which I owned prior to the Silvia). 
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