The Briccoletta is sweet. I'm digging it so far.

It totally shocks me how good the espresso from these newer, high-end home machines can be. Honestly, I think that pretty much any skilled professional barista would be blown away by the quality of the coffee from this machine. For the very, very top baristas there are going to be things about the machine that would become limiting factors - but for the other 99.9% of us the gating item will be barista skill.