After really quite a bit of research, comparisons for the quality of construction and quality of the result at this price always .. I ended up with this machine.! The machine really makes amazing coffee. Personally, I am very curious about the coffee I drink and demanding. I have been buying coffee for years from a coffee shop 'considered the best in town' that makes their own blends, etc. now I buy this particular coffee beans for home. The machine with the necessary adjustments in grinding, weighing, etc.. and a little love during the process produces better overall coffee than what I used to drink daily outside.

- Let's move on to the negatives now..
The only negatives I have to say about the machine is that due to my inexperience, maybe at first I struggled with it and since then when it presses at maximum for extraction it makes a noise as if it is struggling and I would say some creaking.
Another thing that had occurred was that it would stop the extraction at 5sec no matter what I did. On its own.. At any setting.. (this is a problem looking on google that many sage espresso machine owners have experienced). It fixed itself for now.
I mention all these, because there is no representative or service in Greece. So if something happens to the machine, it goes back abroad. Confusion.

09.10.23
I come back with a new comment.. The machine finally stopped making coffee possibly due to the problems I wrote in my first review. It was sent back to the store where I bought it and they in turn to the sage service abroad. I was without a machine for about 3 months until they checked it.. Eventually they replaced the machine.