What are you using to make your espresso? What is your average pull time? Bar pressure? Beans? All that jazz :-)

My Gaggia Classic bit the dust this past week and it has been killing me to try and find another machine to replace it. So far I am looking at ordering a full Rancilio set up with a Silvia V3 and Rocker Doser grinder (have a Baratza Virtuoso Preciso that has been replaced 4 times now and the most recent replacement broke after a week terrible quality control on their end). None the less, this entire set up with a good ole extended warranty since QC in machines (especially grinders) seem to be poor to say the least, is going to be just over $1050.

What I am interested in is knowing about what any of you guys may use to brew those amazing shots! My Gaggia classic was a beautiful machine for the first year, and as long as I fed her clean fresh ground fresh roasted beans, she spit out a 26 second pull that would please even the harshest of espresso critics, it only operated at 12 bars of pressure, but I recently found out how to mod it to lower that to 9 on the pump in order to pull shots even slower and more forgiving. However, it seems as if the pump has lost all power this past week so it's moot now.

So come on, do you guys use Gaggia? Rancilio? Saeco? francis? Capresso (what I used for many years). Mr Coffee (some people get good results?). Brevelle (returned one of these). Delogorne (terrible customer service, decent shots when the pump acts proper).

Happy brewing :-)