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My brother in Christ... $1400 for a coffee grinder and espresso machine?!

I am into mechanical keyboards and IEMs and that feels outrageous to me. I'll spend $40 on a pen, but that price point feels insane to me.

Maybe I just like my garbo Aldi's whole bean coffee with cream & sugar, so I am not your target market... I hope you find your niche - I am sure it is out there if you went this far. But man.. I couldnt ever spend that much on the tools to make coffee.

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The espresso space is notoriously targeting well-off people. That is a pretty normal price range. At the high end you can find espresso machines for 13k [1] and grinders for 3.6k [2], still aimed at consumers.

[1] https://www.lamarzocco.com/ch/de/produkt/leva-x-1-group/

[2] https://weberworkshops.com/products/eg-1

Believe it or not, it's pretty reasonable price for mid-high end quality coffee stuff. Seeing the picture and description I was expecting an at least $1000 range price for each. And I totally not am an SF engineer with that much excessive money for buying something like that.

Coffee enthusiasts are borderline insane, maybe something with the involved molecules.

That’s actually pretty cheap, especially if it delivers on the promises. I spent about $6k on my current setup.

A "higher" end home grade espresso machine, that is also a huge gunk of plastic and prone to issues/expensive maintenance is over $700 alone.

So for a self made, low production run of quality components, this is not bad.

We know very little about the quality of this product, but it's competing with the likes of Flair 58 and Niche Zero, which makes it adequately priced. But again, if the quality is there.

This is inline with entry level setups. My setup costs this much.

The thing is the expectations for these machines are sky-high. They're built like tanks, last forever, are servicable, and generally very high quality.

If you think this is an "entry level" setup, you're in too deep!

No, I don't believe I am. I had a retail-level setup and I can absolutely tell the difference.

It's not so much that I can make better espresso, but it's far easier, quicker, and more consistent to make not-totally crap tasting espresso.

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