Having sampled many delightful cups of coffee from a friends Gaggia, I decided enough was enough and parted with my own. Firstly, this is a very expensive machine, but you get what you pay for. I would say that you have to be a real coffee enthusiast to spend this much on a coffee machine, but I love my coffee and for me this machine is brilliant. Although it is expensive, the coffee from this machine is better than any Starbucks or Costa, and miles better than any other machine I have used. For those of you who may not know, this is a bean to cup machine, so you fill it up with whole coffee beans which it grinds to give you your cup. The taste ...  Read the complete review

Gaggia Syncrony Compact - have had this machine for about 5 years and it cost around £350. When it is good, it is very very good, but when it doesn't work, oh dear! The customer service at the Halifax depot where you have to send your machine to be repaired is appalling, and you have to pay over £100 for them to fix it, unless you take out the extended warrantee. Ours has been back three times in five years. You need to use filtered water in the machine as limescale build up can be a problem - although we used filtered water from day one and the depot still used this as a reason for it failing. The steamer nozzle can be hit and miss with its power producing varying .  Read the complete review

The Syncrony Compact - Advantages: Grinds, Delivers, Steamer - Disadvantages: Steamer was Crap on ours, Position of Water Container, Height of 'output'