It looks exactly as it did in the ad., and it fits the portafilter in my Breville machine perfectly. This was what I was looking for, as the Breville portafilter is an anomalous 54 mm in width. Very pleased.

Excellent service thanks

Fantastic mod!

Very pleased. The price was far better than anything else on the internet. The seal is very tight. I ordered 2 so I don’t let it get as bad as I did the original. A little tricky to get the old one out. Fortunately I have some plastic pry tools which made getting the old one out much easier than most of the YouTube videos I watched.

It was a super helpful addition to our machine. Easy to clean and much easier to use than the one that came with breville. Service at coffee addicts is fantastic, as we received our parcel very, very quickly.

I ordered the solenoid valve. It was shipped immediately and I had it in 1.5 days. My breville oracle now works perfectly and i am so happy to get my coffee again every morning. The box came with candy which was a nice surprise for……. My kids…

Fit perfectly on my ECM GIOTTO..Definitely worth the upgrade... noticeable difference..plus it looks good !

Installed onto my Fellow Ode and now have a whole new understanding of clarity and sweetness

Fits better than stock portafilter and looks beautiful to boot. I’ve noticed an improvement in shot quality as well with the new basket. I also had a great experience with customer service and appreciated the little touches in the box :)

The portafilter is great, well made and funtions and fits perfectly. Coming from a single dose basket, the 14g basket is a treat cutting my work way down.

Being able to see exactly where and how the shot is flowing has been a hugely educational and a beautiful part of the process.

The Coffee Addicts service always impresses. Box treats were appreciated and consumed instantly.

Replaced failed pump in Gaggia Classic. Direct fit and works like a charm!!

Coming from more than a few years of using an E61 heat-exchanger machine - Ascaso's Steel PID line of machines feels like cheating. It's too easy and definitely less involved.

Pros:
-Warmup time is quasi-instant (more so when compared to heat-exchangers)
-Drinks quality (too easy with the PID)
-Reaaaalllly nicely dampened pump noise
-Overall machine's looks and feel
-Honest 58mm, E61-specs group (no proprietary non-sense)

Cons:
-Volumetric control seems to be upstream of the OPV - hence triggering of the latter screws up the net output volume.
-I don't particularly like the on/off nature of DUO's steam. Being used to machines with an actual turn-valve, I should have gone for the UNO. It's just so much easier to purge before and after steaming.
-One of the reasons for getting the DUO - was the fact that we're using our machine for a variety of drinks - not all requiring steaming. However - it seems that there's no explicit way to keep the steam thermoblock OFF unless it's disabled in PID. Again - it feels like UNO would have been a more honest choice for us.
-Availability of parts. Original Ascaso's naked portafilter is backordered everywhere with no ETA.

Overall, we're very happy with the purchase. Thx for making this happen Coffee Addicts!

PS This is of no Coffee Adddicts fault by any stretch, but if your machine is being shipped further than 2 provinces away from Alberta - please don't be expecting any miracles from UPS...

This dial indicator is _the_ thing that was missing on my DF64 ELR!
Greatly improves grind size adjustment precision reading. Happy customer,and enjoying the everyday grind even more!

A bit heavier than my previous one (Cafelat), this is a great looking tamper and it fits very well in my hand.

Overview:
I got the MaraX because my coffee space was limited in width, and I wanted a very narrow machine without compromising on performance. So far the MaraX has delivered. The features that were included - dual PIDs, temperature and pressure gauge, complete set of accessories including IMS baskets - also tipped me into buying this over other comparable machines such as the ECM Mechanika V Slim, Profitec 300/500 and Rocket Appartmento. The lesser price was the icing on the cake! The 9" width is the slimmest on the market that I've found so far, which comes with some pluses and minuses - the narrowness means that the controls are a bit more cramped, the cup tray isn't as wide, and the drip tray isn't as large as the competitors. On the plus side, it meant that I had space to put the knock box, grinder, accessories and coffee containers on my workspace without completely cramming everything in place.

The brewing:
Mechanical pre-infusion is nice to have, the slow ramp up helps to make the MaraX a very forgiving machine in terms of extraction. Even the shots that were very fast or very slow were still drinkable, and it dampens the grind/tamp variations if I don't get it exactly right. Having a switchable PID seems nice but to be honesty I haven't played around with the temperature settings - the light roasts that I have done so far seems fine with the default setting. Huge water tank means less filling for me. The steam wand is decently powerful, but because the steam temp/pressure is lower in BTP it means that you're not quite going to get the same power as a dedicated dual-boiler machine or HX. Still more than enough to steam milk for 2 lattes at once, though it might take a bit longer. No cooling flushes needed, quick recovery time. I've banged out 4-5 cups in a row with no problem when hosting guests.

Overall, a great home machine, and pretty much the only HX machine I'd recommend!