I thought it had a special filter that came with it. Do I still need the number 4 filters? If so are they readily available? We just have a normal Mr Coffee machine now.

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I saw some at sweetmarias and they were pretty inexpensive but if I can get them locally, all the better.

I was looking for a carafe style maker to go with my new ss appliances. I started looking through posts here and although there weren't many posts regarding them, the posts that were here were glowing reviews. Intriqued, I started to research coffee makers at coffee geek and marias etc. It wasn't *that* much more than the cusinart I was considering from Lowe's, which had poor reviews from the people here.

I like the looks of it and if it lives up to it's reputation, I'm going to be thrilled. I saw an online review that stated coffee from this maker equated to a "culinary orgasm". It isn't often you see no negative press on anything but I didn't find anything.

I am so excited about, it's a birthday present from me to me. :)

It does however make the best coffee I have ever had. We simply transfer the coffee after it is brewed to our own Thermos brand carafe, where it keeps forever.

By the way, we follow the tips on the Sweet Maria's website- in regard to brewing the coffee in the moccamaster. Do NOT put the glass carafe under the filter of coffee right after you turn on the switches. Wait a bit, and have some water collect in the filter basket, and give it a few stirs. (We use a chop stick). It makes the coffee very concentrated, and distributes the water better.

Finally- a delicious cup of HOT coffee!

For those who ordered from Boyd's; how long did it take to receive the maker after the initial order?

I don't recall that it took any more than a few days to my house in SoCal. Pretty normal shipping time from a reputable retailer.

There is still not updated info on the site about my order and I noticed what it really said; "Please remember that we are currently shipping orders within 4 - 6 business days of receiving an order."

In my giddiness in finally finding the right coffee maker I thought I had read it would be here in 4-6 days.

My freebie Gevalia coffee maker bit the dust, so I finally decided to buy a Technivorm Moccamaster CD10, with a glass carafe (Chrome Model # 9932) after reading all the great reviews at CoffeeGeek, and constantly being disappointed with the brewing temperature of my past drip coffee makers.

I ordered mine from George Howell, terroircoffee.com last Sun and received on Thur. I ran a couple water rinses through it as suggested and we were quite delighted with our first pot this morning made with filtered water and freshly ground beans.

I am not in the least disappointed with its performance. Very quiet,fast and hot. The review at CoffeeGeek is a few years old. The new models now come with the shower head dispersion rather than the single outlet, which was about the only complaint the older review had. I choose the glass carafe model; we have a nice Zorjirushi thermal carafe that I keep any left over brew for extra fresh cups later and like the feedback of seeing the coffee brew anyway.

If you like to a nice fresh batch of drip coffee in the morning this is the machine to have.

I was thinking the A 9 Kitchenaid if I can find one but have read reviews they're a mess. I still love how they look though and think it would look great by the technivorm coffee maker.

blue velvet elvis--I have the A9 coffee grinder, and it does look nifty with the Technivorm. It is a bit of a mess, but I've found that if you just give the little cap thing a tap before you remove the cup with the ground coffee, you don't end up with too many stray grounds.

I lost my last bid on ebay of a pretty chrome A9 that recently ended.

Also in the running for a grinder were the Baratza Solis Maestro Plus, Mazzer Mini, & Capresso 560.01/565 Infinity Burr Grinder; these would all be good choices IMHO.

Many who make only drip brewed coffee using paper filters find the coffee grind is not as critical as espresso and press. Some even prefer and feel better saturation is achieved with the dust to course particles that a whirlybird pulverizer grinder like the Krups 203-42 (above) provides.

I received a free CDN thermometer with the Technivorm deal from terroir coffe by the way, so stuck in down in the brewing grounds this morning and found it read the 200 degrees F they advertise. By the time it gets in the pot it is 165 and in my ceramic cup 155...still a temp one would consider a nice HOT cup of coffee.

Anyway, it works really well - brews a great cup of coffee and I think the machine looks really nice. I got a Baratza Virtuouso grinder a few weeks ago when my old grinder broke, so I decided to go all out with the new coffee maker.

I love this time of year… Since I’ve been a good girl, Santa always leaves me something under the tree… I’ll have to tell him I want a Tehnivorm. Since Santa left it, DH can’t say a word! Santa leaves something for everyone – every year… :-)

1. If you use oily type of beans (dark roast), I would say your chances of getting the machine to stall will be about 100% in the course of a month. In addition, if you want very fine coffee for espresso, you will have to recalibrate the grinder. There are instructions to do so, and the company will help- but might mess up your other settings for drip coffee.

I know of 3 people that have had the same problems as we have. Don't get me wrong- I still think it grinds a mean cup of coffee. In the course of a year we have contacted the company about 3x. Once they had to exchange the grinds cup due to an engineering flaw... that was on every grinder. 2. After the calibration, it never worked the same. So.. now we use it strictly for drip. We still have to tilt the machine, and pound it a bit due to the oily beans.. but eventually it gets ground.

Have a look at the coffee geek website to see what others say about all the products. It is very helpful.

They already exchanged my machine once, and replaced it. Baratza's service has been fine. No problems there!

Basically, I think it comes down to... that most very good grinders- $200 or more don't do the best job at drip AND for espresso. They specialize in one or the other. For drip coffee, I would not recommend one of the Krups whirr grinders, as pictured above. I definitely would go with one of the burr grinders. The problem really is compounded by using the very fresh oily beans. So... I use the Baratza- but getting kind of sick of having to shake this multi-pound unit for a number of minutes.

I really like the idea of the thermal carafe (especially since it means one less thing to clean), but not at the expense of a really hot cup of coffee.

One thing with the new thermal carafe that I learned on the web is to put the cover on before pouring, even if you're going to pour it all out right away. The carafe itself doesn't have a spout, just a big round opening, and I found I had to be careful when pouring it without the cover on - but then I learned the trick to put the cover on and now it pours fine.

I’m seriously considering the Moccamaster which I’m sure will make better coffee and now I’m not worried about the cooling affect… :-)

I decided on the glass carafe rather than thermal because I did not want the extra step of preheating the pot. I figured if I was planning on keeping it longer, I'll just transfer it to one of my glass thermos carafes. Besides, the glass is easier to clean and you can always tell how much is in there.