Fantoms are in my opinion ten times better tehn a dyson. We have a dc07 which im not proud of. It stays in the closet the whole time. I have never had such a bad machine. we bought that because are fantom died after 7 years of great service. I can rember getting that machine. My gram had jsut inherited some money so she gave me and my brother 300. Well I went to kmart that night. My brother went bought a bike and a game. What did I buy a Fantom thunder. We took it home. We cleaned out the bin twice in every room. We never had a problem with it. My gram was so impressed she went and bought a lightening. But it died3 eyars later. Thatw as always my grams favortie vacuum. She died a year ago so I want to find another anybody have one. But anyway I think fantoms are good machines if you take care of em.