Great Little Product
What a great idea to put the filter right in the coffee maker. I replace ours about every 4 months and they work great.

Does what it should!
There is a noticiable difference in the taste of our coffee when I use this in the coffee maker - a positive difference!

a necessary but expensive filter
If you're going to get good coffee, which is why you bought the Cuisinart in the first place, you have to take care of the water. This accomplishes that. I wish it was less expensive, since it's just a little pack of activated charcoal, but that's life.

Filtered down water, Great Coffee
I love my Cusinart Coffee maker. Very Nice Machine. And if you want the best tasting coffee you need these water filters. I was a skeptic, but you really can taste the difference. Water filters? yeah I gotta have em!

Water filters *do* make a difference
I left my water filters unchanged for toooooo long (over a year). I can definitely taste the difference and am putting a reminder on my calendar to change the filter regularly.

They're not cheap I guess, but if you use good coffee, why would you want it to taste like something ground you buy in a can? And if you use ground coffee from a can (some of which I like so I'm not slamming it), why wouldn't you want it to taste as good as possible?