Product review (5 stars): used it for first tine today and love it so far.
update: have had this for a little while now (a month or two?) and am still very happy with it - more than anything, happy with the filter. i take care of dogs and have a cat, and the filter catches A LOT. in fact i just took out all my winter clothes that were stored away and there was a fleece winter headband covered in cat hair and dog hair - i washed it and it came out with all the hair washed off!! the filter caught the hair - i was NOT expecting that and it was a miracle, now i don't have to tape all that hair off. i wish i could fill the machine more than 3/4 but that's ok. it's so much fun to be able to do laundry at home (i hate schlepping all these pounds of laundry to the laundromat) and i find it grounding and comforting. love it.

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just got this yesterday, hooked it up today and used it for the first time.

at the nyc laundromat, my boyfriend and i used to do one month's worth of laundry at a time and bring huge bags (that's right, we went once a month and used multiple machines at once).  now, using this for the first time, still with a month's worth of dirty laundry each, we're having to do a few loads just because there are two of us and we haven't done laundry for a month, but oh what a miracle it is to do it while i'm reading a magazine and watching tv :D i know we'll be doing laundry biweekly now (or whenever we want, naked if we want to!), and i'll stop buying more clothes just to have something to wear.

this thing is super quiet. i accidentally set it on heavy, which makes it  go too long with two rinse cycles, now we're doing a "normal load."  the spin cycle works super well and the stuff comes out NOT dripping wet, so i can hang it up in my apartment and NO water is dripping whatsoever.

directions r a bit confusing, never mentioning when to turn on the faucet!  i watched a youtube video (just go to youtube and type in the model number) to see what one user did.  she had leaking, we had  no leaking. in the video, the woman mentions she had read that  you're supposed to use "high efficiency detergent" - well the directions actually say you're supposed to use POWDER HIGH EFFICIENCY  DETERGENT. i had already brought ultra downy liquid high efficiency detergent, but it still worked great. the clothes smell AWESOME. the woman in the video just used norrnal liquid detergent and was still fine. the dierctions say to use less than usual but i want to smell the detergent for once in my life - and tat's what i did. large loads with a normal amount of detergent and they smell great. the dirty water that comes out into the sink is truly dirty so you feel like your clothes are really getting washed.

i never brought a dryer - we don't have space for it and don't need it. once day, if we buy a house, it'll be nice to have toasty warm towels etc but whatever. right now my aprtment looks like a gypsy camp with long strings strung up and clothes hanging off the strings to dry, but it's not bad. all this is still better than hauling 40 pounds of laundry to the laundromat.

love it. recommend it. i haven't tried to move it yet - the wheels are tiny and as everyone mentions u have to tily it sideways to move it. i don't want to have to tip it as it weighs 90 lbs so i'm going to look for cheap casters to store it somewhere when not in use.  i agonized over using this v the sonya and ended up buying this one bc it's amazon prime so it's covered if any problems.  also, delivery was great. this is going to make doing laundry a lot more convenient. and that soft whooshing laundry sound (VERY soft) is very calming.