De'Longhi Magnifica S, Automatic Bean to Cup Coffee Machine, Espresso and Cappuccino Maker, ECAM22.110.B, Black

This is a really easy to use bean to cup machine. I set it to the standard settings for the machine and have been happy with that.It is really easy to use. The hardest part of this machine is to not run out of beans.I feel this machine will last for a long time. It feels well made. It looks great. My friends who came to visit, were impressed with it.

Good solid coffee machine. Will last you years and years and make thousands of coffees hassle free. Looks good cleans well and if you treat it right it will love you back. Simples. Better than the newer model also. Tried and tested for years, so why change it.

... makes great coffees, relatively easy to set up and use. Pressure is good, it looks fabulous on the counter

Received this a couple of days ago. The paper instructions are just in pictures and are BLOODY USELESS. Fortunately, I found and downloaded the full printed instructions as a PDF onto my Acrobat app. If you’re not at all computer or technical savvy, GOD KNOWS what you’d do. Anyway, use Google to find the instructions online and then download them or print them out.The machine works fine, by the way, and is easy to operate if you’re able to access the printed instructions. This machine is more compact than my previous De’Longhi and noticeably quieter. For some reason, completely clear water gathers in the drip tray after use and needs regularly emptying. Is it supposed to leak?!Descaling the machine is a little tedious, requiring THREE cycles-one to circulate the descaling solution through the machine, one to rinse the frothing spout and one to rinse out the twin spouts that deliver the coffee. This means you need a jug under the frothing spout and another under the coffee spout. The helpful YouTube tutorial shows a very useful container that is positioned under all the spouts but De’Longhi doesn’t supply one or make one! I phoned up and checked.My previous De’Longhi Magnifica worked fine too but its innards decided to totally and irreversibly collapse after four years. If this new one doesn’t last a lot longer it’ll be the last De’Longhi I ever buy!!

Makes excellent coffee very pleased i went for this machine after a lot of research.

The product is very good

I don't normally write reviews but I really advise you to read this one, or waste six hours of your life trying to set the machine up, as we did. We got it working, eventually, but the control panel on this monster is a cacophony of chaotic irrationality and implausible illogicality, designed by an infant, or something, which makes a kind of sense once you work your way backwards from the end result, a cup of coffee, no less, but you have to get there first. Until then there's no need to waste time with the instructions. You'll have more luck blindfolded. Indeed don't expect the instructions to be any help at all. In fact they will send you up numerous blind alleyways. But beyond all that there was another issue which we stumbled upon by pure chance and if we hadn't we would have sent it back. Briefly we found something resembling a red plastic three pin UK type electrical plug set between the removable tray at the base and the body of the machine, a plug which you won't find unless you remove the tray, and which you won't find mentioned in the instructions either. The plug is clearly supposed to be there, but why? Up until that moment there was a red flashing warning light - we presumed - which we could not get to switch off. It kind of resembled an extra wide letter U filled with small dots in two horizontal rows. What could it mean? Out of beans? Out of water? Empty coffee grounds? Wrong voltage? Water pressure too high/low? Water still heating? Add limescale remover? Walk the dog? Answer the phone? Sending out a machine of this complexity with completely incompetent and misleading instructions for use shouldn't be allowed, and is something you don't expect of an established company in any field, or of Amazon.Only when we withdrew the tray did we find this bright red plug, for want of a better word, lurking in the bottom left corner, as per the photos. We didn't know what it was, but wondered why it was red. We pushed it, pulled it, and suddenly it came away. Was it supposed to or had we broken the machine? We set it to one side, replaced the tray, and wondered, if it was supposed to be removable, what would happen if we replaced the tray and... Hallelujah! The red warning (?) light went out, after six hours between two people, trying to get the thing to work. So be warned, flashing red light means remove red plastic plug. Why? Absolutely no idea, unless you want to disable the machine without telling anyone, for example if someone breaks in while you're at a wedding, or on holiday. Perhaps someone knows at Amazon, or deLonghi. The really appalling thing is that various lights flash, or give a semblance of life within the machine, even though it's never going to work, until you remove this plug. We rang Customer Experience. Completely useless. They said to send it back to Amazon. How many people have sent this machine back because of this red plug? Is it meant to be there? Is it supposed to be removed at the factory before dispatch? Buy this machine at your peril! Now we have a new problem, which is why whole beans are mixed up with the coffee grounds in the removable tray, and how to prevent it. We're still working on that but rather than send it back just yet, we're going to persevere. We've still got 28 days. We're going to need them,.Having said all that it makes really nice coffee, but you're going to need it, so be warned....

Great coffee maker. Slightly smaller in size from our old one. But does the job just as good.