Got mine in Red. Its Quiet & now my go to blender. I managed to chop/puree 1 onion, 4 garlic and some ginger to stir fry my veggies since 90% of my cooking is Asian style, and it did a fine job. Using my old chopper is not as great since such a small quantity does not get choped up well and only splatters the stuff to the side wall of the chopper and oh is that chopper so high pitched and noisy. Only issue I have with the Kitchenaid hand blender is that I struggle to remove the blender from its body after use