This makes great coffee but if you want the coffee to taste great each time then you must work at it.  This is my second or third machine and prior to this one I used a Cuisinart G & B that I had to add beans to each night.  This is more convenient but there's a catch.  The coffee path is: hopper-->grinder-->chute-->through specialized lid to basket.  The chute is the problem!  It gets clogged EASILY and the best thing to do is to get a brush that is longer and larger than provided and clean it every other time.  This requires removing the hopper with the beans--they may go all over the place--and getting to the chute, brushing the adherent grinds into a basket with the lid removed first and then trying to reattach the hopper, sometimes this easy but not always.  So, very good coffee but only consistently if you are prepared to work at it.  Unless something better comes along I'll probably buy another!!!