This annoying price / performance ratio

Can a machine for almost 1300 EUR more than prepare excellent coffee and perfect milk froth? For me, this is a matter of course, which may indeed appease has otherwise but to look into the evaluation criteria nothing.

Positives: The Exprelia looks in complete stainless steel design really very good and high quality. It is easier to clean and less sensitive to dust. The grinding process and the preparation of the coffee come before me much quieter than my previously used Incanto de Luxe. The supply of coffee and water has become easier. The milk foam preparation is foolproof using the carafe, but requires some care with the perishable food milk. As always with the SAECO brew group is removable and easy to clean.

Negatives: When milk preparation, the milk nozzle spratzelt the front full. To facilitate the cleaning work, I have the coffee spout now completely removed, the overall visual impression a little disturbing. Evaporation including the front display is completely moist. From many years of experience with machines SAECO I suspect this is the reason that often the control board needs to be replaced with interference. In general, the display (even earlier SAECO models) shows very often nonsensical prompts, such as "empty grounds" immediately after emptying and similar nonsense. Constantly the machine will cleaned emptied, are filled or otherwise requested an activity by the user. The coffee maker does not take this purely emotional the first place.

A really big story is the descaling. All cans and containers need to be emptied. Under the spouts of hot water and coffee containers must be placed separate. The milk carafe must be docked and half filled with water. Only then are set to go. Because no one has come up with the idea of ​​Saeco, the customers a sufficiently large, matching receiver (simple plastic would be enough) to make available, you have to keep the machine during the descaling constantly in mind, otherwise threatened with flooding. After the actual decalcification a triple water tank for flushing takes place. Since it is a total of no less than once an hour on the machine.

It also is advisable to continuously let a container under the coffee outlet, because the machine cleans the outlet at every shutdown / restart, and otherwise one hand, the front is verspratzelt, on the other hand very quickly the frontal liquid tank is full and needs to be emptied. For me it is incomprehensible why unlike previous models of frontal drainage tank is separated from the internal, because now significantly more likely one of the two tanks must be emptied.

Overall, I am against the new model set rather ambiguous, as it once again failed to genuine innovations, has not resolved old flaws and shortcomings of the new automated milk froth generating mE has solved not satisfactory for this price range. In principle SAECO still sells a technology of the mid-80s, when they constructed the removable brewing unit for the first time. The inner workings of a SAECO is in contrast to the endless wealth model vorspiegelnden exterior amazing variantenarm.

In any case, it is significantly cheaper with a unit of the lower price category and, where appropriate, separate milk frother.