I have now owned this dryer for one month and overall am very pleased. The end-of-cycle sounds are not annoying, but are loud enough to be heard from a story above, The control panel is pretty straightforward. My one gripe is that even normal-size loads without towels most times require the high- level dryness setting to be completely dry. The normal load setting with the defaults do not adequately dry normal-sized loads. This is a bit disappointing.