I'm young and broke so i bought mine used already. But I have a DuoClean and I really like it. Two dogs in the farm house and this vaccum does a great job at keeping up. I really like that it feels heavyweight and can tell it cleans well. I vacuum once a week and to do the whole house I dump the canister twice. Its got lots of nice features to it, espescialyl the accesability. For a while I noticed it wasnt picking things up and I thought it was broken, turned out it was just plugged after I did some investigating. It was easy to access and remove the blockage. I also really like the easy cleaning features.