I love my Janomes. Traded up from husqvarna Viking and never looked back. I have janome 12000, looked at the new 15000 and decided the upgrades weren't worth the extra money. You just have to decide what you want and jump in. My son gave me the same advice a while back when we were looking at computers. No matter which electronic equipment, being machine, etc, you get, it'll have a newer model in a year or two.