Product review (5 stars): The washer of MY DREAMS!!! This is the best washer available today.
This is my 3rd washer in 5 years because I threw the other two, a Maytag and a Whirlpool, out. The Speed Queen washer is exactly what I wanted. It has a number of features that are really hard to find in washers these days:
  1. allows manual selection of the water level. I can fill the entire tub up with water if I so desire.
  2. allows independent selection of agitate speed, water temp, and spin speed. No annoying preset programs that limit your choices to fixed combinations.
  3. has a good old fashioned agitator.
  4. has a manual knob for setting position within the cycle. I can start or stop the load anywhere in a cycle that I want and move to a different cycle mid load. I can soak and then wash with the same load of water.
  5. impeccable quality and construction. Minimalist design. All of the cost goes into substance and none of it into fluff.

I've owned the Speed Queen for 2 years now and appreciate it every time I use it - especially now that I've learned what a bad direction the washing machine industry has taken the past few years.

One additional note. There is a manual knob inside the control panel that allows calibration of the XL water level. I slight adjustment of that knob will undo the government regulations that require that the tub can't be filled all the way. I did it in mine and have been using it this way for 2 years. I can still use less water when I want less water but now I have the choice of a full tub when I want one.