Product review (5 stars): It Passed Our Test
Water purity is a necessity when living with someone who has true OCD. I don't mean the occasional tapping three times on the steering wheel to ensure safe travel and lining books up just right and in alphabetical order. No, calling that OCD is simply a societal fad. Genuine OCD is lining the books up according to the ceiling line which is perfectly parallel with the bookshelves and the adjacent furniture, in ISBN order (unless it's Dewey Decimal Saturday), and tapping on the steering wheel once every 3 seconds for the duration of travel to the extent a special finger pad has to be created and the steering wheel has an indentation. Needless to say, the last time our Kenmore 9690 refrigerator needed a filter replaced we bought the $85 one. But times and circumstances change, bank account balances not excluded, and spending a fortune on an OCD symptom is not always a treatment option. I purchased this filter after reading the mostly positive reviews with fingers crossed and a prayer, and failed to mention I paid much less for a different brand. So far so good. Which is fantastic; I did not want to see where the cessation of drinking would lead. The filter is louder, yes, and I may have noticed sediment once (hard to say whether the filter is responsible...). All the same, five stars for meeting the impossibility high standards of an overworked brain.

I received this product at a discount in exchange for an unbiased, unedited review.