Well, I've owned a Janome, Pfaff and currently have a Bernina. Janome just didn't sew as nicely as the other two. The Pfaff I had was a 3.0. My experience with Pfaff was basically good, but I found the embroideries a little less than perfect. The Bernina 730 has been my dream machine. It has perfect embroideries and the software is allot more user friendly than Pfaff. I do miss the IDT of the Pfaff and do enough sewing that I'm in the process of trying to find a Pfaff with the IDT, needle down and knee lift since I would like a machine to sew on when the Bernina is doing embroideries. Hope this helps. Feel free to ask any other questions. Good luck! :-)