Honestly, it'd be hard for anything to live up to a $4,500 price tag.
I mainly use my Jura for coffee and espresso, and the $1,000 spent on my latest E6 was totally worth it. I can't imagine what additional features would be worth adding multiple thousands on top of this.
I picked up a jura e6 in November 2018 for about 1400 or so after tax and have been using it daily with at least 3 cups of coffee through it daily, but a lot more in the beginning when I had housemates. I’d say we’ve gone through roughly 10k cups of coffee at this point, with roughly 4 filters a year ($20 each avg) and a cleaning tablet every now and then (~40 dollars for a supply that has lasted me since I bought it). Using the filters means I shouldn’t need to descale.
We don’t really do milk drinks, so one of the smaller machines would have worked just as well, but if this one ever breaks, I will immediately purchase another one.
Cleaning the brew group is quite fiddly though as it’s not a service item and you’ll need a jura security socket to open up the machine, but having done it twice, it’s not too bad.
Many other brands will have an easier to clean brew group, but I’ve read that the trade off is that there is a difference in quality of the coffee. I would recommend going to a sur la table if you wanted to check it out a jura in person.
One potential point of failure for a lot of super automatics is the grinder. I tend to stay away from beans that have an oily sheen to them because I’ve read that the oil can clog the grinder eventually causing it to fail. I believe you can mitigate this by cleaning and doing regular maintenance, but I’d rather just choose a less oily Bean doesn’t require extra steps.
Another failure point that I’ve read about many times and experienced once is scaling in the thermoblock. Over time, mineral deposits build up inside of the passages and reduce the efficacy of the water boiler. My first jura died that way, hence the filters.
In the past 4 weeks I tried 3 brands and ended up with magnifica plus.
First I bought KitchenAid KF7. The coffee was strong but the cleaning was pain especially the drip tray would fill much faster. The machine gave up after 3 weeks. Started leaking.im glad it was under the return period.
Then I tried Jura E6 which made the strongest coffee of all. Rivelia and Eletta explore were both meh. The coffee is very diluted and if you reduce the ground size the explore would not even pour.
Luckily I could try the magnifica plus at williams sonoma. To my surprise it was much more stronger than any other DeLonghi's. I've been using it for the last month now and quiet happy with it.
If you get a discount on prime day then take it. I saw Woot had it for a good discount few days back.
Great timing….. Jura e8 . Factory Refurbished on sale now for $1,800. That’s what I did last year and we love ours. https://us-jura.com/c/AQie8QoQ1-RKGOWerYsCIIfK-BQo4-DSHsljy1owz29t0jecwP4XsRP4tt5vwLgxMJgtXnAU_KYo
They also have the e6 for $1k.
brilliantcut
