Been in use just over a week, considerably quieter than the old machine, with the door closed between the kitchen and rear porch/utility room you can't hear it washing and only a low hum on spin. Straight forward controls and we do like the separate temperature and spin speed controls, whatever programme you have set you can adjust the speed/temperature from 0 to the max for that particular setting, also like the pause function, if you need to add or remove anything part way through just press pause, open the door to alter, then press again and it carries on, you can even move it to another programme and carry on from there, and all at an excellent price.