We had a krupps, we changed for this device. Unlike our first machine, this one makes a great coffee. This one is the same all the time and this is very nice. Pretty foam, friendly flavor, hot ... However, because I put three caveats to this machine. 1: cleaning and descaling are WAY too common. (You can still get the same coffee if it was not such proceedings which changes the krupps, but it's still irritating and heavy at the end.) 2nd: We must constantly put water and empty the drip tray. Far too often. 3rd: Lay your machine on a suitable carrier or else watch the water leakage from below if you have not emptied the recovery tank in time. The krupps did that too and there IS MORE irritating. Anyway I'm happy ... but it's still not the top if one may say so.