My old noisy shop vac is dying (good riddance) so I'm in the market for a replacement. Also looking to take a step up in a number of categories.
I was going to ask people's opinion here, but I had some time and did a little researching myself. Here are some links for those who are also in the market.
Good FWW article (membership req'd, or if you have issue #163....)
I tried Consumer reports, but it seems like they're only reviewing the shop-vac, craftsman, ridgid groups.... oh well.
Many articles available if you're looking at the lower end (read: noisy and underpowered), but that's not what I was going for here.
After all that, I think I'm going to take a step down from the fein and festool and go with the porter cable 7814. Looks almost as good for $100+ less
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Be well, work wood, make dust.
JC
oh, btw, if you have opinions on the above, feel free to enlighten me. My mind is not completely made up yet.
jc