After many years of reliable and quality service, our old LG washing machine finally stopped working.  Our old matching LG dryer still worked fine, but we wanted to have a matching washer dryer set, so based on our prior excellent experience with our old LG products, which was updated by research on new laundry equipment, we decided to get the matching LG dryer.  After several weeks of use, we are quite pleased with the features and performance of our dryer.  We are still tinkering with several of the new features and settings, but overall we feel that our purchase was money well spent.