I don't understand why they gave out the Lavazza Oro - it's truly terrible IMO and makes the machine look bad. Sometimes nothing is better.
The Illy IMO is just okay - I've had appreciably better results with the Super Crema.
FYI, if you call in to aabree/etc they'll give you the 'quantity' pricing on split lots if you buy the equivalent of the quantity buy - I recently bought a bag of super crema, 2 cans of Illy, a bag of malabar gold, a bag of Joe's and they gave me 50% of the 'single lb' pricing. It was a great way to taste lots of different blends.
I've also bought some of the most highly reviewed and expensive blends on the market - paradise roasters, code brown and Terroire's Dattera etc and while they were all fantastic I'll be making the Super Crema our daily brew for a while as it's very satisfying and 1/2 the price.
The Terroir was particulary interesting, truly unique FYI.
I've found the espresso from the superauto isn't the greatest (compared to what I can do with a good lever machine) and I've been found myself drinking a lot of milk drinks.
Try this one - it's become my morning drink of choice:
Steam Milk (get a pitcher/thermometer - it really helps)
Run out the overtemp water.
Run a bypass round with no coffee.
Into a 10oz mug do 2 mediums and 1-2 shots of espresso with 2 tsp. sugar. pour in a few oz of milk, top with foam.
MMMM
/Matt