I just bought one of those inexpensive Merlita (Melita?) pour through cones, and really like it. I grind my own. Any kind of drip pot always made the coffee taste stale, to me. We have a lot of calcium in our water, so that may have something to do with it; I don't know.
I'm making turbo-charged coffee, blended with butter and coconut oil, so I like the coffee to be a little stronger than normal.