> And it's odd, but even cheap pre-ground supermarket coffee tastes hugely nicer with the AP.

I'll second that, with the AP even decaf folger's will brew a cup that I really enjoy.

At the risk of sounding insane, sometimes my biggest motivation to stop working and go to sleep at night is that I can have a cup of coffee in the morning. I actually just confided that fact to my wife, and she empathized, so either we're both insane or it does indeed make very good coffee.