M00seUK

This forum is SOOOO inane... no spell check and no preview button.  I mean to say, the attachment handle grip is more comfortable on the 17 than the 14.  I do wonder if they will ever lengthen the wand to an appropriate size in future models.

I know of customers that threw out their dyson filters trying to make it work better.

Guess what it worked....................


MOLE

I could ask why most bagged vacuums now use a paper bag you can only use once, unlike paperbags in th past that had a removable clip to empty and if ok to re-use it again!  May be has something partly to do with the dust and fine dust blocking and clogging the pores in the filter paper!  Restricting airflow!  But may be it 's down to partly convience on the users part which is a world we live in today!

DC18

Thanks for info Motor.  W*M here doesn't have it yet.  I thought perhaps for the 4th July but haven't arrived yet.  Excellent price in a bad economy.  And especially for a WM sales venue.

HOOVER has the 'hush" mode on the EmPower going back to 2004 and still.  Consumers love it.  Even the article you quoted from Better Homes and Gardens praised the EmPower and hush mode feature.

Not surprised to see it emerge on a new HOOVER bagless.  The EmPower for $80 is a popular seller among all the W*M competitor big box retailers.  Nice to see the feature available in a W*M HOOVER model. 

By the way have you checked out all the HOOVER 100th Anniversary models.  3 uprights and a canister.  Been out since mid June 2008 to commemorate the HOOVER Century anniversary.  Figured TTI would do something for the big HOOVER Century mark.  Might want to pass the info along to Tom G.  He thought it would never come to pass and HOOVER was dead in the water.  He'll be surprised. 

Carmine D.