I love mine more than any other machine I have ever had. You will never regret it. If I had seen another for $400. I would have used the grocery money for a month to buy it! So I could have one on the frame and one on the table at all times. It's a great machine. Nothing fancy-
As long as you keep her oiled, she will purr. She does need to be oiled and cleaned about every 8 hours of sewing, but it's easy enough to do. You can hear a change when you have gone beyond that....