This is a commercial espresso station that wandered into the home market, and the price tag makes sense only if you treat it like used restaurant equipment. The dual grinders and dual boilers deliver genuine café firepower, but the grinder chokes on fine settings with medium or dark roasts, forcing you to vacuum it clean every few days or settle for coarser grinds that miss the machine's full potential. At $6000 retail it's a terrible deal for home use; at $500-$1000 refurbished it's a defensible gamble if you're pulling dozens of drinks a week and can live with the grinder quirk or budget for occasional service. Buy it used from a caterer downsizing, not new from a showroom.
Jura's flagship superauto is the most technically accomplished machine in the category: the cold brew extraction produces genuinely clean, low-acid iced coffee, the product-recognizing grinder auto-adjusts for each drink, and the hot espresso holds up in blind tastings against properly dialed semi-automatics. The value equation is brutal. At $3,500 to $4,300 (plus a separate milk system), you're paying double what the KitchenAid KF8 costs for features that matter mainly if cold brew is non-negotiable and you have the counter space for a commercial-looking footprint. Buy it if you want the most capable superauto and budget isn't the constraint; walk if you're comparing capability per dollar, because the gap is hard to justify.