Now AM, you wouldn't be suggesting that the R & D department at the Rancilio domestic office are complacent and resting on their laurels... are you? Because if you are I'd suggest that they hardly exist! Irrespective I think you are spot on! With refinement the Rocky or the K3 could again be on top and domestic users beating a path to suppliers but I kinda think their modus operandi is to make things as robust and as simple as possible to keep them out of land-fill as long as possible. The longest duty cycle (bragging rights) and estimated time to failure wins theory. I would imagine that control boards and microprocessors with dry solder joints and caked with fines will fail before the motor in a Rocky thus KISS. I suspect however that it is less of the second idea and more of the first!
