Speed Queen.

LG just has too many problems with the electronics.

Modern Maytags aren't - they're just cheap Whirlpool Estate/Roper clones at four times the price.

Mutton dressed as lamb.

No matter how cute the Maytag guy is in the ads - you're just paying too doggone much for a Kirkland.

Personally? I'd go vintage Maytag. Last longer, be less trouble.

SQ, but shop for a better price than you found, We charge less than $1600 for the pair you looked including del & install, in fact people that pick them up at our shop get them for less than $1400.

Next best bet something from WP-MT, but skip the service contract, and keep in mind that dryers have more service calls in the first 15 years of life than the washer, washers just tend to eventually have a big repair that makes them not worth repairing, but that seldom occurs in the first five years, and if it does a decent manufacturer will usually give you some of your money back.

I would skip the LGs the dryers are cheap copies of WP dryers and are hard to repair and troublesome.

I have never had a complaint about SQs dryer lint filter but you can remove the screw that holds it in place and take the filter out to clean it if you like. The SQ dryer is very much like your MT dryer except it is faster drying and bigger inside, I don't know whats not to like, we certainly have had no complaints after selling hundreds of them.

I'm a German living in America, not a German-American. I know the appliance market in Germany and in the US, so:

1) Extended warranties in the EU are not comparable to the very expensive and highly limited not-worth-the-paper-they're-written-on 'policies' common in the US.

2) LG appliances in Europe are NOT the same as LG appliances sold in the US. I loved my LG washer as much as my Miele in Munich, but the standards and components and QC is not the same, at all for the appliances sold here in the US as it is for their appliances sold in Europe. Stop comparing them, you're comparing two entirely different things.

3) Maytag in the US, today, may look prettier than Roper/Estate but you're still paying several times as much for the same Roper/Estate innards. Which aren't that bad - just, why pay Cadillac Cimarron prices for a Chevy Celebrity?

4) Water usage for TLs verus water usage for FLs in the EU is a false equivalence. Apart from the fact that rinsing clothes in water doesn't limit it's re-use. Must we go down the incorrect classification of Natriumphosphat in Germany pathway again on every single aspect of laundry?

5) Speed Queen is overpriced. So is Persil. Get over it.

6) Performance measurements of washers have to be read through very carefully. Öko-Test magazine used to fail the performance of a washer/dishwasher if it was shipped with protective Styropor instead of honeycomb recycling (sic) cardboard, regardless of how well it otherwise worked. Same applies to 'test' companies in the US - when you go through the fine print, you find out the tests aren't relevant to the real world.

Martin is, as always, quite clear here as to his questions - I think we should answer them as did John regarding the lint filter, not pontificate about comparisons of apples to oranges.

It was even a landline POTS phone.

Called our appliance sales and service centre. They service all of Southern Wyoming, Nebraska panhandle, much of Northern Colorado. Here's what the man (in his mid-70s, been doing this since the 1950s) said:

Speed Queen has some problems with their harnesses. Corrosion. Some problems with premature bearing failures.

Nothing, absolutely nothing even close to comparable to the problems with GE/LG. Better than the Whirlpool group. He won't do Samsung (won't repeat his comments on them). Says, if he could only take one machine with him to a desert island (we're in a deep-freeze here, so his choice of words is telling), it would be a SQ TL.

So - zero service calls, ever? Not what John said and not what my local parts guru says. So glad he bought back the business! But nothing, at all, even remotely close to the LG problems, nothing at all in the ballpark with the GE trash coming out these days. 

And better than the entire Whirlpool group.

Oh, and, yes, dear anal-retentives: I specifically asked whether this was adjusted for volume. He said 'absolutely'. For the volume, Whirlpool today makes some very good machines, highly serviceable, more easily serviced than SQ. But - SQ failed far less often.

Let's be honest - isn't some of this simply the old 'I'm a Chevy guy vs. I'm a Ford dude?'

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I, also, meant no offence - we've been through all of this for many years now and we'll still be going through it for many decades to come.

Including the hysterical water usage (I lived in Neuhausen for pity's sake - worrying about water in Germany is about as silly as it gets).

Including the whole false claims about the danger of TSP.

Most modern FLs don't have the resonance problem with wood floors they once did - Electrolux in particular has a suspension/electronic tuning to avoid exactly that.

So - you might want to investigate that more, if an FL comes into question, at all.

Martin, that's why I won't use the quick wash on my Duet.  How, I will say the LG with TurboWash selected will give a spin/spray rinse after the deep rinse.  But if I was using this wash3er, I'd still select an optional rinse.  I also cannot see anything getting clean in 3 minutes unless it just needs to be refreshed.  I did notice in the owners manual this speed cycle does allow steam as an option. 

The SQ TL are very well made machines and will likely outlast the other options you are looking at but are old school.  That being said I would still choose them but with the electronic controller so you get a FULL 5 YEAR warranty.  Without buying a service contract.   

If you could swing it the BEST option is the SQ FL.  A true commercial washer adapted to home use.  They are quite expensive but will last for decades.  I do not regret buying mine.

WK78