I am still happy with my purchase and think Vitamix still offers the best blender, but I feel the quality has diminished since the last time I bought one. The good: simplicity of the controls as I don't need to program it, a container that fits under the cupboards, unbelievably powerful, well designed. The bad: the container that fits under the cupboard needs more than one serving of ingredients to be enough to blend effectively, it is soooo loud, the whole thing just seems cheaper than my last Vitamix (container threatens to lift off the base when blending, container and tamper made of cheaper-feeling plastic.)