Looks wise it is quite appealing to the eye with curved rounded edges, colourful concise buttons, smart satin steel finish off set with pearlised black accessories, (this was the first machine to diversify away from the traditional black or white finish.) It has a removable stainless steel drip tray and is totally wipe clean. There is no doubting it’s a smart looking machine but with the quality of the other digitals Gaggia are famous for does it live up to its brand name?

The first thing you come across with this ‘Bean to Cup’ machine is that the Gaggia Syncrony Digital has fully automatic functions with a LCD programmable control panel, which we found simple and easy to follow, you can even program how different people take there coffee and at the press of a button create their desired tipple. The initial selection coffee type / size and programming the timing function (that on some machines can be time consuming,) couldn’t be any quicker to use.

The main feature on this machine that differs from others is its huge 2.4ltr water tank you’re talking approximately twenty cups, here at Lordpercy.com we haven’t come across a larger water tank as yet. Also the coffee quantity can be adjusted and preset for future use. Other bonus features are: on-board cup warmer with built in heating element (enables you to pre-warm your cups so that your coffee stays hotter for longer) water hardness adjustment control and standard or automatic descaling function. It also has two boilers… yes two, one for the coffee and one for the steam, they both work independently meaning if you don’t want to froth milk you don’t lose any water capacity to frothing function also it only takes two minutes to heat up!

The milk frother on Gaggia Syncrony Digital is again fairly simple to use, if you have mastered the art of producing froth on other machines then you wont have any problems with this one. It comes with a small development that is more of a safety function ensuring that the splash back form the frother is reduced stopping to possibility of burns. The coffee filter also has a pre-infusion function allowing the coffee grinds to be pre-soaked allowing total aroma release, imagine the smell of freshly brewed coffee first thing in the morning drifting through your open plan office.

There are several versions of the Gaggia Syncrony Digital available now including the Compact version which the biggest difference is the smaller water tank capacity and a single boiler which weighs in at much less that the 8.25kg of its big brother.

To be honest there isn’t any groundbreaking technology with the Gaggia Syncrony Digital but it combines all the technological advancements in coffee over the last twenty years into one fast and easy to use machine. It did exceed our expectations here in the LP.com office and in fact I can see this machine being used in our situation all over the country, it’s just perfect for the office environment even the most non-technological of admin assistants (who can’t even operate the photo copier) would be able to use it without any trouble.

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