I've used 3 different commercial machines but unfortunately the only home-style machine is my Sunbeam EM6910 - and I must say I am a fan. I can emulate what I did in the cafe and pub and in a couple of days I am producing better coffee than I got in almost every coffee place across 40 years.
Any provider you go to should be able to pour you a coffee to try - if they can't at least send you down the street to a cafe they provided a machine to, I'd be looking elsewhere. Don't just take anybody's word for it, you need to try it out and preferably watch them using it.
Read around the forums - some of the 'I love this' machines also have a learning curve that has many other people chucking them. For mine, if you spend time learning your machne (and you're not an idiot) and you STILL have issues making a coffee just how you like it, that machine is probably not for the average coffee maker.
Any provider you go to should be able to pour you a coffee to try - if they can't at least send you down the street to a cafe they provided a machine to, I'd be looking elsewhere. Don't just take anybody's word for it, you need to try it out and preferably watch them using it.
Read around the forums - some of the 'I love this' machines also have a learning curve that has many other people chucking them. For mine, if you spend time learning your machne (and you're not an idiot) and you STILL have issues making a coffee just how you like it, that machine is probably not for the average coffee maker.

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