I am a big believer in Consumer Reports, and they gave this unit excellent scores for washing performance and predicted reliability. This was a major reason we decided on this unit and we have had it for about 3 weeks now. We are very pleased with its performance so far. The first thing we noticed was that it is very quiet and has little vibration, even in high speed spin cycle. It has a wide selection of cycles, and we have used most of them already. It has handled everything from a few delicate items to our king size comforter with no problem.