Most unpleasant-sounding vacuum ever?

[powerstarenergy]

Speaking of Dirt Devils

I have come back to say that any 2010s Dirt Devil Stick Vac, most notably the Dirt Devil Power Stick, is unnecessarily loud.

 

[niclonnic]

On the subject of stick vacs...

I had a couple more vacuums that I forgot to put in my OP:

- Eureka Flash NES510: A corded unit by Midea, it had a rather loud, high-pitched motor. Plus, despite the "no loss of suction" claim, it wasn't cyclonic, so the filter got soiled VERY fast. Whenever the filter got packed with dust from normal usage, the vacuum would make a popping noise during the wind-down. That was a cue for me to wash the filter.

- Hoover ONEPWR Blade MAX BH53352V: A cordless, dual cyclonic machine by TTI, its "High Performance Digital Motor" had a very high-pitched whine during operation. Running it on low was a little more pleasant. But turning on the "boost" mode would make the vacuum louder and devastate the battery life.

But there is one more honorable mention:

- Black & Decker BDH2000SL 20V MAX Cordless Lithium-Ion Platinum Hand Vacuum - An incredibly powerful DustBuster that sounded incredibly LOUD and high-pitched during operation. Despite this, it was our go-to hand vacuum for several years.

There you have it: three vacuums that sound like a jet engine.

 

[evolutionclean1]

Not necessarily unpleasant

But I had a 70s Sanitaire that came standard with the 3.5 amp motor, that wasn't doing it for me so I swapped it for a 7.5 amp with the metal base and a shake out bag, holy hell. Using a free sound meter app on my phone, it was pushing 91dB. I think I put a VG1 in there too so yeahhh it was a carpet rocker

I did end up selling it as I've done so many purges over the last year ish, but it was probably the single loudest in the collection at the time. Now I've moved on to machines that are much much quieter, not sure where my new sound sensitivity came from...
I'll have to do some digging as I know I've come across plenty of very unpleasant sounding machines through the years, stay tuned?

 

[royalfan103]

@powerstarenergy

I still have the hand vac you mentioned and even after a disassembly and cleaning of the motor inside it, it still sounds like it’ll blow up. It had sounded like that since I first got it.